Charles Sumner: “There are men who, in the spirit of paradox, make themselves partisans…”

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There are men who, in the spirit of paradox, make themselves partisans of a bad cause, as Jerome Cardan wrote an Encomium on Nero.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner draws a parallel between those who support bad causes and historical figures who praised tyrants.

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