On the record
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.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner reflects on the inevitability of a shared global civilization over time.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
Other voices in this conversation
