Every human being carries a universe in himself; but here, as in that other universe, is the same prevailing law of Unity, in harmony with which the starry heavens move in their spheres and men are constrained to the duties of life.
This quote illustrates Sumner's view that every individual embodies a universe governed by the same laws of unity that govern the cosmos.
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