Charles Sumner: “But I tell the Senator that there are characters, badly eminent, of…”

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But I tell the Senator that there are characters, badly eminent, of whose fanaticism there can be no question.

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Massachusetts

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He asserts that there are undeniably fanatical characters in society, challenging the senator's views on fanaticism.

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Charles Sumner: “But I tell the Senator that there are characters, badly eminent, of whose fanaticism there can be no question.”