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This error has nowhere been more frequently repeated, nowhere been of more pernicious tendency, than in America itself.
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gutenberg.orgJosiah Quincy: “This error has nowhere been more frequently repeated, nowhere been of more pernicious tendency, than in America itself.”
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Quincy critiques a common error in American thought that has had harmful consequences.
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