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As well deny that the sun shines,--as well with puny arm attempt to drag the sun from the sky; still it shines.
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Sumner uses a metaphor to illustrate the inevitability of certain truths, like the shining sun.
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Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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