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The several descriptions of people will not be kept so much apart as they now are, as if they were not only separate nations, but separate species.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “The several descriptions of people will not be kept so much apart as they now are, as if they were not only separate…”
Editor's note · Context
Burke envisions a future where different groups of people are more integrated rather than isolated from one another.
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