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'To hunger and thirst after righteousness has been naturally, as it were, supposed a disqualification for [political] affairs; and a man, living for truth, and in a spirit of love, "pure in the last recesses of the mind," who should propose to seek truth through political action, and exercise love in the use of political influence, and refine his purity by disinfecting the political atmosphere of its corruptions, would hear it reported on every hand that he had a demon.'
Harriet Martineau, in Society in America, 1837
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