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Those chains which girt the courts of justice are but typical of the chains which tyrannous men are striving to put upon our lips.
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Mann draws a parallel between the chains of justice and the oppression faced by individuals.
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This ruinous system of large farms cultivated by slaves showed its effects in Italy, eighteen hundred years ago, when the Roman empire was at the height of its grandeur.
Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
The north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.
Once a day the hatches were opened, to receive food and to disgorge the dead.
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