They are now excluded from those benefits; and, so far as civil society comprehends them, and as we have managed the matter, our persecutions are so far from being necessary to its existence, that our very reformation is made in a degree noxious.
Burke critiques the exclusion of certain groups from societal benefits after reforms, questioning their necessity.
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