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Why this common humanity, why this common brotherhood, if the inheritance is for Brahmins only?
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Sumner questions the notion of brotherhood if only a select few benefit from it.
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I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
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