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[the structure of its constitution had been to so well ..... ... ... names..]
[equally ingenious structures of its consitution]
- a name chosen to alienate all whom it would alienate. Its constitution, [by the way], was equally effective for it simply [canisister] in a single chance forbidding any [declaration, resolution or other] action /being taken/ by the Club as a collective body, thus preventing /the club/ it from [meshing] the only intrinsically precious thing/element in the merit, as so many other societies crush it, in the idle frivolity they call "business", while more over since, without action there can be no officers and in particular no secretary and so no acknowledged record of debate, an adequate [index] presented to gentlemen deciding who should desire to distinguish themselves or