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| | A Necessary Evil |
 | | The Continental Army was at a remove from those fierce motives. |
 | | The Continental Army's demands may have been necessary in war, but, like government itself, they were a necessary evil, one that should not be continued, or excessively honored, in peacetime. |
 | | The militias' faults, by contrast, existed in wartime but could be profitably forgotten in peacetime, when other services they performed were still worth commemorating. |
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