Charles Sumner: “There is no height of culture or of virtue--if virtue itself be not…”

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There is no height of culture or of virtue--if virtue itself be not the highest culture--which may not be reached.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts that there are no limits to what humanity can achieve in culture and virtue.

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Charles Sumner: “There is no height of culture or of virtue--if virtue itself be not the highest culture--which may not be reached.”