In this season of our national degradation, it will be something, that, when Englishmen talk to me of their dead Miltons and Marvells and Hampdens and Sidneys, I can answer them with a living name, which, like these names, shall never cease to live.
Sumner highlights the importance of having a contemporary figure to honor alongside historical greats in English literature and politics.
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