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But what limp so mean as that of this pretended power? what smoke so foul as its breath? what pitch so defiling as its touch?
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Sumner critiques the nature of power and its corrupting influence.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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