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The soul of all effective laws is an animating public sentiment.
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He asserts that effective laws must be driven by public sentiment.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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