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The system in its mildest form can have nothing but evil; for it is a constant violation of primal truth, and a constant obstruction to that progress which is the appointed destiny of man.
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Sumner asserts that any form of caste system is inherently harmful and obstructs human progress.
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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Men are erring and mortal; principles are steadfast and immortal.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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