But underlying, interpenetrating, and informing all this brilliancy of genius is the earnest philanthropy of the man,--a philanthropy which gives an effect to all his productions, which the cold-blooded politician, or statesman, even, can never hope to attain.
Sumner highlights the deep philanthropy underlying a person's genius, contrasting it with cold political calculation.
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