The daily increasing rapidity of discovery and improvement, and the daily multiplying efforts of beneficence, outstripping the imaginations of the most sanguine, furnish assurance that the advance of man will be with a constantly accelerating speed.
Sumner expresses optimism about the rapid advancements in human discovery and benevolence.
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