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or minds sufficiently exercised to adopt the principles of action, which form perhaps the only basis of contentment in every station[1]."
"And independence," said Darnford, "they are necessarily strangers to, even the independence of despising their persecutors. If the poor are happy, or can be happy, things are very well as they are. And I cannot conceive on what principle those writers contend for a change of system, who support this opinion. The authors on the other side of the question are much more consistent, who grant the fact; yet, insisting that it is the lot of the majority
- ↑ The copy which appears to have received the author's last corrections, ends at this place.
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