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Others there are who freely bestow means and time upon distant, inaccessible heathen of another hemisphere, in islands of the sea; and yet they can do nothing to mitigate our graver heathenism here at home.
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Editor's note · Context
Sumner points out the hypocrisy of those who help distant causes while ignoring local issues.
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