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… is from page 183 of an excerpt from Robert G. Ingersoll’s 1879 The Gods and Other Lectures [2], as this excerpt appears in the excellent 2015 reader, Individualism [3], edited by George H. Smith and Marilyn Moore:
Whoever believes at the command of power, tramples his own individuality beneath his feet and voluntarily robs himself of all that renders man superior to the brute.