With him a false standard is necessarily established, bringing with it a blunted moral sense and clouded perceptions, so that, when he does something intrinsically barbarous or mean, he does not blush at the recital.
Sumner describes how the moral and ethical degradation of a slave owner leads to a distorted sense of right and wrong.
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