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Charles Sumner: “Few will question that Man, as an individual, is capable of indefinite improvement, so long as he lives.”

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Few will question that Man, as an individual, is capable of indefinite improvement, so long as he lives.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner believes in the potential for individual improvement throughout a person's life.

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