By a decree which is a proverb of tyranny, the Israelites were compelled to make bricks without straw; but it is not according to the ways of a benevolent Providence that man should be constrained to do what cannot be done.
Sumner uses a metaphor to illustrate the injustice of forcing people to achieve the impossible.
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