Charles Sumner: “There is good law as well as sense in his saying, that a child is not…”

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There is good law as well as sense in his saying, that a child is not put to a nurse that cares not for it.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts the logical principle that one should not assign a task to someone who is not invested in its success.

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His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.

Opening of United States courts to colored, XI. 389.

Working-men of Europe, desire abolition of war, XVIII. 236.

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Charles Sumner: “There is good law as well as sense in his saying, that a child is not put to a nurse that cares not for it.”