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I do most fervently wish that this principle might be made the fundamental law, now and hereafter, so far as may be practicable, of all the appropriations of the Smithsonian bequest.
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gutenberg.orgJosiah Quincy: “I do most fervently wish that this principle might be made the fundamental law, now and hereafter, so far as may be…”
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Quincy advocates for a principle to guide the appropriations of the Smithsonian bequest.
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