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If you are for the one, you cannot be for the other; and just in proportion to the embrace of Slavery is the divorce from Civilization.
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Sumner emphasizes the mutually exclusive nature of slavery and civilization.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!
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