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Helping here, you help not only your own country, but help Humanity also,--help liberal institutions in all lands,--help the down-trodden everywhere, and all who struggle against the wrong and tyranny of earth.
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Sumner expresses the idea that helping others contributes to the greater good of humanity and liberal institutions.
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