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Against him are stronger battalions than any marshalled by mortal arm,--the inborn, ineradicable, invincible sentiments of the human heart; against him is Nature with all her subtile forces; against him is God.
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Sumner argues that fundamental human sentiments and divine forces are stronger than any mortal opposition.
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