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Suppose, suddenly, by some disastrous change in the order of nature, an entire kingdom or community were to be enveloped in total darkness,--to have no day, no dawn, but midnight evermore!
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This metaphor suggests that a society without justice is akin to a world shrouded in perpetual darkness.
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