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Would you know the incalculable mischief of State pretensions?
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Sumner questions the destructive consequences of state pretensions on society.
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Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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