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It holds out the attraction of seeming, though unsubstantial, self-interest.
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Sumner critiques the proposal for offering an illusion of self-interest that is ultimately unsubstantial.
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I am opposed to a tariff for protection merely, and not for revenue."--Letter to John K.
I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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