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To found a republic on a minority is scarcely less impracticable than to stand a pyramid on its apex.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “To found a republic on a minority is scarcely less impracticable than to stand a pyramid on its apex.”
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Sumner uses a metaphor to illustrate the impracticality of a republic based on a minority.
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