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The spectacle was most pitiably humiliating, but I counted it an omen of progress.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge Julian: “The spectacle was most pitiably humiliating, but I counted it an omen of progress.”
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Julian reflects on a humiliating political spectacle as a sign of potential progress.
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