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Too strong for restraint, it finds no limitations except in its own barbarous will.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Too strong for restraint, it finds no limitations except in its own barbarous will.”
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Sumner describes the unchecked nature of violence driven by a barbarous will.
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