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Excerpt from The Empire: A Series of Letters Published in "the Daily News," 1862, 1863
I did not intend, when the letters were written, to reprint them in that form; but when I tried to put the matter of them into a more regular shape, I found that the discussion which ran through the series had followed the main lines of thought, and that in attempting to be more methodical I only became less clear.
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