Charles Sumner: “Nature has made men free and equal; the distinctions necessary for…”

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Nature has made men free and equal; the distinctions necessary for social order are founded on general utility only.

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Sumner expresses the idea that all men are inherently free and equal, with social distinctions based on utility.

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Charles Sumner: “Nature has made men free and equal; the distinctions necessary for social order are founded on general utility only.”