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How strange that any institution of learning or science, any church, or any cemetery should set up a discrimination so utterly inconsistent with correct principle!
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Sumner questions the rationale behind discrimination in educational and religious institutions, advocating for consistency in principles.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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