If it be met by the suggestion, that the inconvenience is trivial, and such as the law will not notice, I reply, that it is precisely such as to reveal an existing inequality, and therefore the law cannot fail to notice it.
Sumner argues that even trivial inconveniences can reveal significant inequalities under the law.
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