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Besides its immediate efficacy in liberating slaves at home, it rises already a landmark of Human Progress.
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Sumner views the Emancipation Proclamation as a pivotal moment in the advancement of human rights.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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