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Alas! the sudden and rapid decline of our morals and our strength, the crimes of kings and the woes of peoples, will render even universal that fatal catastrophe which is to detach one world from the other.
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Sumner laments the moral decline and turmoil caused by oppressive rulers, predicting a catastrophic separation of worlds.
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