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These great populations, ruled by a single will, have, doubtless, trodden down and destroyed innumerable little cities who were just beginning their freedom.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “These great populations, ruled by a single will, have, doubtless, trodden down and destroyed innumerable little cities…”
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Bagehot reflects on how large populations have historically suppressed smaller cities striving for freedom.
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