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 Rh take the place natural to it in the life of mankind, and will become the chief basis of the relations between man and man.

That time is coming; it is at hand.

Channing said the same:

Why should we suppose that people, who are entirely in the power of God, will always remain under the strange delusion that only human laws—changeable, accidental, unjust and local as they are—are important and binding, and not the one, eternal, just law of God, common to all men? Why should we think that the teachers of mankind will always preach, as they they now do, that there is and can be, no such law, but that the only laws that exist are special