Its influence, like all great ideas founded on truth, may be comparatively slow, but it is already acting over the world, and in a brief period it will be so potent that men and nations will be ashamed to avow a belief in any other code of morals.
Sumner discusses the slow but powerful influence of great ideas based on truth.
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