Charles Sumner: “Each rate is like an additional language to be learned, while the…”

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Each rate is like an additional language to be learned, while the unknown rates on foreign letters are like the confusion of Babel.

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Sumner uses a metaphor to illustrate the confusion caused by multiple postal rates.

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