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What was theory before the war has been made fact by the war.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “What was theory before the war has been made fact by the war.”
Editor's note · Context
He observes that the war has transformed theoretical ideas into tangible realities.
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