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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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Sumner expresses his belief in the moral duties and hopes that arise from the law of unity among humanity.
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The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
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