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It is impossible not to desire earnestly that this people may attain to all the prosperity of which they are capable.
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Sumner expresses a strong desire for the prosperity of a particular people.
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As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
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