Coral Reef National

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“The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.”
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“All experience teaches that, whenever there is a great national establishment, employing large numbers of officials, the public must be reconciled to support many incompetent men; for such is the favoritism and nepotism always prevailing in the purlieus of these establishments, that some incompetent persons are always admitted, to the exclusion of many of the worthy.”
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