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Nepotism is already condemned by history, and most justly; for it is obviously a form of self-seeking, hostile to purity of government, and strangely out of place in a Republic.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Nepotism is already condemned by history, and most justly; for it is obviously a form of self-seeking, hostile to purity…”
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Sumner condemns nepotism as detrimental to government purity, asserting its inappropriateness in a Republic.
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