A system which looks to the extinction of a race is too horrible for a nation to adopt without entailing upon itself the wrath of all Christendom and engendering in the citizen a disregard for human life and the rights of others, dangerous to society.
Grant condemns any system aimed at the extinction of a race, warning of its moral and societal consequences.
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