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Perhaps it is an evil inseparable from the good with which it is allied; perhaps it is a shoot which cannot be stripped from the stalk, without wounding vitally the plant from which it is torn.
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Beveridge reflects on the inherent complexities of balancing good and evil in the context of freedom.
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