Charles Sumner: “And yet this very frankness reveals an insensibility to reason and…”

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And yet this very frankness reveals an insensibility to reason and humanity, which, when recognized, must add to our abhorrence.

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Sumner argues that frankness can reveal a troubling insensitivity to reason and humanity.

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