Page:Man Who Laughs (Estes and Lauriat 1869) v2.djvu/103

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to the world the strange spectacle of a great people, which, in its desire to take the better part, chooses the worse; and which, having before it the past on one side and progress on the other, loses its way, and mistakes night for day.