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All this is natural, for tyranny is condemned to be consistent with itself.
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Sumner asserts that tyranny must maintain consistency in its oppressive actions, revealing the inherent contradictions in systems of power.
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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.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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