Through its untiring energies, the meditation of the closet, or the utterance of the human voice, which else would die away within the precincts of a narrow room, is prolonged to the most distant nations and times, with winged words circling the globe.
Sumner highlights the power of communication to transcend geographical and temporal boundaries.
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