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I am sure that a good nation will not do what a good man would scorn to do.
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Here, Sumner argues that a morally upright nation would not engage in actions that a good person would find reprehensible.
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Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
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