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Nothing is more clear than that the welfare of classes, as well as of individuals, is promoted by mutual acquaintance.
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Sumner asserts that mutual acquaintance among classes benefits both individuals and society as a whole.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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