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But future magnificence, filling the imagination, will not feed the hungry and clothe the naked, nor will it provide homes for the destitute.
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Sumner emphasizes that future grandeur cannot replace the immediate needs of those suffering from the fire's aftermath.
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Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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