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"Let a prejudice be bequeathed, carried in the air, adopted by hearsay, caught in through the eye,"however it may come, these minds will give it a habitation; it is something to assert strongly and bravely, something to fill up the void of spontaneous ideas, something to impose on others with the authority of conscious right; it is at once a staff and a baton."
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