Fry Family/francis Fry 1803-1886 - His Interests and His Family

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    The moon is nothing
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    Divinely subsidized to provoke the world
    Into a rising birth-rate.
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    Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measures by results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.
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