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It means that violence, the rule of warriors and despotic chiefs, the conditions of camps and warfare, of riot and tyranny, give place to parliaments where laws are made, and independent courts of justice in which over long periods those laws are maintained.

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This was a long delay.

And the man said, "He's come down a long way, hasn't he?" (Laughter) (Applause) There's been kind of a series of epiphanies.

The history of attempts to tinker with the function of the nervous system is long and illustrious.

And we've come a long way since Galvani's and Susana's first successes in making animals twitch or jump.

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