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Look at the facts of the world. You see a continual and progressive triumph of the right. I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.

— Theodore Parker Ten Sermons of Religion (1853)

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The world has grown rich and refined, but chiefly by the efforts of those who themselves continue poor and ignorant.

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