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Finally, as is uniformly the case in the history of bad government, an unjust method produced a worthless machine.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “Finally, as is uniformly the case in the history of bad government, an unjust method produced a worthless machine.”
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Morley concludes that bad governance leads to ineffective systems and outcomes.
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