If you make it for a class, it is not a common school, but a separate school,--and, as I have said frequently to-day, and also before in addressing the Senate, a separate school never can be a substitute for the common school.
Sumner argues that a school designed for a specific class cannot fulfill the role of a common school, which should be inclusive.
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Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue 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.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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