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Throughout all time alleged necessity has been the apology for wrong.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Throughout all time alleged necessity has been the apology for wrong.”
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Sumner reflects on the historical misuse of necessity as a justification for wrongdoing.
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