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Its primal truths, announced as self-evident, are more commanding and more beaming now than when first uttered.
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Sumner emphasizes the timeless and powerful truths of the Constitution as self-evident.
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They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
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