Charles Sumner: “But no abridgment should be allowed to sacrifice the cosmopolitan…”

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But no abridgment should be allowed to sacrifice the cosmopolitan character which belongs to the system.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner emphasizes the importance of maintaining the universal nature of a measurement system despite the temptation to simplify it.

More from Charles Sumner

Women’s National League, petition of, for universal emancipation, X. 300.

Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.

Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.

Sovereignty of, belongs to the people, XVI. 28.

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Charles Sumner: “But no abridgment should be allowed to sacrifice the cosmopolitan character which belongs to the system.”