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The virtuous ... stand forward from a background deeply and darkly shaded....
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “The virtuous ... stand forward from a background deeply and darkly shaded....”
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Beveridge uses this metaphor to describe the contrast between virtuous individuals and a morally compromised society.
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