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Adlai Stevenson: “Is it too much to say of this man that among the world's benefactors a greater than he hath not appeared?”

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Is it too much to say of this man that among the world's benefactors a greater than he hath not appeared?
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Adlai Stevenson

Editor's note · Context

In this rhetorical question, Stevenson elevates Columbus to the status of one of the greatest benefactors in history.

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