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The worshipper of mammon and the philosophical atheist hold no communion with the signers of the declaration that all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights.
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Quincy critiques the philosophical and materialistic views that oppose the foundational principles of equality in the Declaration of Independence.
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