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The streets of our cities, once reasonably secure from crimes of violence, have now become the field of operations for the foot-pad and highwayman.
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Beck describes the increasing danger of urban environments, where violent crime has become more prevalent.
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Its protection should be given to those of superior skill and diligence, who ask the due rewards of such superiority.
Without that vision to restrain each succeeding generation of Americans from the tempting excesses of political power, the American Commonwealth, with its great heterogeneous democracy, would probably perish.
That vision will remain with them as long, and no longer, as there is in their hearts a conscious and willing acquiescence in its wisdom and justice.
It must champion the human soul in its God-given right to exercise freely the faculties of mind and body.
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