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Alas that there should be hesitation in applying the necessary remedy!
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Sumner laments the hesitation in addressing urgent issues that require action.
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They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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