The faint belief in the corporate liability of these thirteen is the feeble relic and last dying representative of that great principle of corporate liability to good and ill fortune which has filled such an immense place in the world.
He reflects on the historical belief in corporate liability for misfortune, linking it to modern superstitions.
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