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Charles Sumner: “Faith is nothing less than a part of that sublime harmony by which the planets wheel surely in their appointed orbits…”

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Faith is nothing less than a part of that sublime harmony by which the planets wheel surely in their appointed orbits, and nations are summoned to justice.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

He describes faith as a fundamental principle that governs both the cosmos and human justice.

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