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The whole pretension is a preposterous absurdity, by which the country has been too much deceived.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “The whole pretension is a preposterous absurdity, by which the country has been too much deceived.”
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Sumner expresses his disdain for a widely accepted but misguided belief in society.
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