Charles Sumner: “Foremost, of course, in these elements, is the impossible pretension…”

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Foremost, of course, in these elements, is the impossible pretension, where Barbarism is lost in impiety, by which man claims property in man.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner critiques the notion of ownership over another human being as fundamentally barbaric.

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Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.

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Charles Sumner: “Foremost, of course, in these elements, is the impossible pretension, where Barbarism is lost in impiety, by which man…”