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The Republic may seem to be saved, and yet it will be lost,--handed over a prey to that injustice which, so long as it exists, must challenge the judgments of a righteous God.
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Sumner articulates the danger of injustice undermining the Republic, despite its seeming salvation.
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Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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