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Let us brush the cobwebs from our eyes; let us bid the inane traditions be silent for a moment; and ask ourselves, like men dreadfully intent on having it _done_, "By what method or methods can the able men from every rank of life be gathered, as diamond-grains from the general mass of sand: the able men, not the sham-able; -- and set to do the work of governing, contriving, administering and guiding for us!"
Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838
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