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Some one gifted with dramatic genius suggested that the funeral pyre of such unholy legislation should not be lighted by earthly hands, but by fire from Heaven.
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Beveridge uses a dramatic metaphor to describe the rejection of flawed legislation, suggesting a divine intervention.
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