For it is singular, the caste may be lost, not only by certain voluntary crimes, but by certain involuntary sufferings, disgraces, and pollutions, that are utterly out of their power to prevent.
Burke points out the precariousness of caste status, which can be lost through both voluntary and involuntary actions.
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