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I dare not neglect the great opportunity, nor can I stand aloof.
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Sumner acknowledges the importance of seizing a significant opportunity for progress.
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The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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