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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe: cities. It is true we could not pretend to forbid their people coming to
London, because it was impossible to know them asunder; so, after
many consultations, the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen were
obliged to drop it. All they could do was to warn and caution the
people not to entertain in their houses or converse with any people
who they knew came from such infected places.
But they might as well have talked to the air, for the people of
London thought themselves so plague-free now that they were past all
admonitions; they seemed to depend upon it that the air was restored,
and that the air was like a man that had had the smallpox, not capable
of being infected again. This revived that notion that the infection
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