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To him it was a grand intuitive truth, inscribed in blazing letters upon the tablet of his inner consciousness, to deny which would have been for him to deny that he himself existed.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge F. Hoar: “To him it was a grand intuitive truth, inscribed in blazing letters upon the tablet of his inner consciousness, to deny…”
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Hoar illustrates Sumner's conviction about freedom as an undeniable truth central to his existence.
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