Charles Sumner: “Even at the very morning of Creation, when God said, “Let there be Light,”--earlier than the malediction against…”

“Even at the very morning of Creation, when God said, “Let there be Light,”--earlier than the malediction against murder,--he set the everlasting difference between man and chattel, giving to man “dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”