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But the imagination of this conception cannot make us insensible to its surpassing absurdity.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “But the imagination of this conception cannot make us insensible to its surpassing absurdity.”
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Sumner critiques an idea he finds absurd, emphasizing the limits of imagination in rational discourse.
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