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Kidnapping, too, a kindred indulgence, was openly avowed, and I doubt not held to be “ennobling.” Next to the unconsciousness of childhood is the unconsciousness of Barbarism.
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Sumner connects the practice of kidnapping to the mindset of barbarism, suggesting a moral blindness.
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