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There is much shower and much sunshine between the sowing of the seed and the reaping of the harvest, but the harvest is generally reaped after all.” So it must be in all self-governing nations of to-day.
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Wilson uses a metaphor to illustrate the challenges of governance in self-governing nations.
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