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But if you, being the judge, shall appear to be no protection to a
desolate and helpless condition against power and influence; if before this tribunal the
cause is found to depend on interest, not on truth; then indeed there is nothing any
longer holy and uncontaminated in the state—no hope that the firmness and
virtue of the judge may counterbalance the lowly condition of any one. But undoubtedly
before you and your colleagues truth will prevail, or else, if it be driven from this
place by power and influence, it will not be able to find any place where it can stand.
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