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To tax such institutions now, for the first time, is a new form of that old enemy, a “tax on knowledge.” Such is my sense of their supreme value that I would offer them bounties rather than taxes.
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Sumner expresses his strong opposition to taxing libraries, viewing it as an attack on knowledge.
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