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Visit the Navy Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts � a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments, though it may be "Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried; [5] The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.
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Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press (March 1, 2006)
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