But as some are born poets and others are born mathematicians, the Marquis de Lafayette was born with instinctive fidelity to the great principles of Liberty and Equality, by the side of which all hereditary distinctions disappear.
Sumner asserts that Lafayette's innate commitment to liberty and equality transcended social class distinctions.
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