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Nemo repente turpissimus.” A humane and civilized people cannot suddenly become inhuman and uncivilized.
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Sumner asserts that a civilized society cannot suddenly become barbaric.
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They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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.
More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
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