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All this I put aside and look only at the transcendent fact, in which all pretence of innocence is so entirely lost and absorbed that it cannot be seen.
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Sumner emphasizes the overwhelming nature of the act that obliterates any pretense of innocence.
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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.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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