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In this law, which is both commandment and promise, I find duties and hopes,--perpetual duties never to be postponed, and perpetual hopes never to be abandoned, so long as Man is Man.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “In this law, which is both commandment and promise, I find duties and hopes,--perpetual duties never to be postponed…”
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Sumner expresses his belief in the moral duties and hopes that arise from the law of unity among humanity.
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