Charles Sumner: “In comparison with these untold spaces before and after, what, indeed…”

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In comparison with these untold spaces before and after, what, indeed, are the six thousand years of human history?

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Massachusetts

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Sumner questions the significance of human history in the context of geological time.

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Charles Sumner: “In comparison with these untold spaces before and after, what, indeed, are the six thousand years of human history?”