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and disease multiply in a city,
are not many courts of law and dispensaries opened, and the arts of
chicane1 and medicine give themselves airs when
even free men in great numbers take them very seriously?”
“How can they help it?” he said.“Will you be able to find a surer proof of an
evil and shameful state of education in a city than the necessity of
first-rate physicians and judges, not only for the base and mechanical, but
for those who claim to have been bred in the fashion of free men? Do you not
think
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