Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your houses -- that man your navy and recruit your army -- that have enabled you to defy the world and can also defy you when neglect and calamity have driven them to despair. You may call the people a mob, but do not forget that a mob too often speaks the sentiments of the people.

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The lapse of ages changes all things - time language the earth the bounds of the sea the stars of t

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