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Assuming this common humanity, it is difficult to see how reason can resist the conclusion, that in the lapse of time there must be a common, universal civilization, which every nation and every people will share.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Assuming this common humanity, it is difficult to see how reason can resist the conclusion, that in the lapse of time…”
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Sumner reflects on the inevitability of a shared global civilization over time.
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