“Tell me what kind of man governs a People, you tell me, with much exactness, what the net sum-total of social worth in that People has been fort some time been.”
Thomas Carlyle, “Downing Street” from “Latter-Day Pamphlets”
It’s awkward but that is how they wrote back then. This why I could barely make it through Owen Wister’s “The Virginian”.
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