It is not the voice of a political partisan, or of the representative of any Administration anxious to establish a system of taxation, but it is the voice of Science itself, speaking by one of its--I may say chosen authorities.
Sumner emphasizes that the authority on taxation comes from scientific understanding rather than political motives.
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