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This duty is so commanding, so engrossing, so absorbing, so peculiar,--let me say, in one word, so sacred,--that to neglect it is like the neglect of everything.
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Sumner stresses the sacred nature of the current duty, equating neglect of it to neglecting all responsibilities.
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