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Of course, in a declaration of rights, no such supreme folly was intended as that all men are created equal in form or capacity, bodily or mental,--but simply that they are created equal in rights.
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Sumner critiques the interpretation of equality in rights, clarifying that it does not imply equality in all capacities.
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