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It was a gleaming array of the political facts of a political indictment, not an aerial fabric of moral abstractions.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “It was a gleaming array of the political facts of a political indictment, not an aerial fabric of moral abstractions.”
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This statement underscores Morley's view that political discourse should be grounded in concrete facts rather than abstract moral arguments.
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