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The blindness which makes him insensible to wrong so transcendent naturally makes him insensible to the lesser wrong by which it is maintained.
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Sumner discusses how the blindness to major wrongs can also lead to insensitivity to lesser wrongs.
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Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
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