Charles Sumner: “To reject it for parchment is as if we imitated the early Arabs, and…”

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To reject it for parchment is as if we imitated the early Arabs, and inscribed our statutes on the shoulder-blades of sheep.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner compares the rejection of paper for parchment to an outdated practice of inscribing laws on animal bones.

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Charles Sumner: “To reject it for parchment is as if we imitated the early Arabs, and inscribed our statutes on the shoulder-blades of…”