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That anybody wanted “acceptance of the new order of things” to have a wider significance, I failed to discover.
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “That anybody wanted “acceptance of the new order of things” to have a wider significance, I failed to discover.”
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Reid expresses skepticism about the broader implications of accepting the new political order.
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