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Like a Pagan idol, it has been worshipped and covered with gifts; but the prevailing superstition which sustained the imposture has at last disappeared, and we see nothing but a vulgar image of painted wood.
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Sumner uses a metaphor to describe the false reverence for the fugitive clause.
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