You are called to give up the old Aladdin’s Lamp of magical power, filling the land with infinite treasures and the true nobility of Freedom, and to take in exchange a new patent article now hawked about the streets of Worcester.
Sumner metaphorically critiques the exchange of freedom for a false promise of prosperity, likening it to a deceptive trade.
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