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All the horrible resources of mechanics and chemistry were utilized to coerce the human soul, and all proved ineffectual.
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Beck critiques the failure of technology to suppress the human spirit.
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Other nations may not take it so literally, but with our life-long adherence to a written Constitution as a solemn contractual obligation, we do.
The spirit of man had a new birth and was breaking away from the too rigid bonds of ancient custom and authority.
Again the words of Washington suggest themselves: "If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work?
It discusses a great malaise of our age, for which, I fear, no written Constitution, however wise, is an adequate remedy.
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