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If this project fails, it is not, according to him, because chimerical, but because men have lost their wits, and it is a sort of madness to be wise in the midst of fools.
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Sumner reflects on the challenges of pursuing wise ideas in a world filled with folly.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
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