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What does "need hardly to be stressed" mean?

Dear people,

Please help me. What does this sentence mean?

"The importance of potash in the communities of colonial North America need hardly be stressed"

Thank you very much

Yours truly,

LiuJu
  

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(Email Removed) (Liu Ju) burbled news:(Email Removed): [nq:1]Dear people, Please help me. What does this sentence mean? "The importance of potash in the communities of colonial North America need hardly be stressed "[/nq] It should be "hardly needs to be stressed".

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  • (Email Removed) (Liu Ju) burbled news:(Email Removed): [nq:1]Dear people, Please help me.
  • What does this sentence mean?
  • "The importance of potash in the communities of colonial North America need hardly be stressed "[/nq] It should be "hardly needs to be stressed".
  • It means that the importance of potash then and there is quite obvious.
  • OTOH It could also be trying to say "needs to be emphatically stressed".
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(Email Removed) (Liu Ju) burbled news:(Email Removed):
[nq:1]Dear people, Please help me. What does this sentence mean? "The importance of potash in the communities of colonial North America need hardly be stressed"[/nq]
It should be "hardly needs to be stressed". It means that the importance of potash then and there is quite obvious.

OTOH

It could also be trying
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