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Charles Sumner: “But the true Golden Age is before, not behind; and one of its tokens will be the opening of those long ways, by which…”

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But the true Golden Age is before, not behind; and one of its tokens will be the opening of those long ways, by which villages, towns, counties, states, provinces, nations, are all to be associated and knit together in a fellowship that can never be broken.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner expresses his belief that the future holds a true Golden Age characterized by connectivity and unity among communities.

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