The tokens of improvement may appear at a special period, in a limited circle only, among the people, favored of God, enjoying peculiar benefits of commerce and Christianity; but the happy influence cannot be narrowed to any time, place, or people.
Sumner argues that the benefits of improvement and progress are universal and cannot be confined to specific groups or times.
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