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Walter Bagehot: A slave is an unassimilated, an undigested atom; something which is in the body politic, but yet is hardly part of it.

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A slave is an unassimilated, an undigested atom; something which is in the body politic, but yet is hardly part of it.
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Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot describes a slave as an entity that exists within the body politic but is not truly integrated into it.

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