Even if we do not accept the conclusions of an ingenious calculator who places this damage at ten thousand millions of dollars, we must confess that it is an immensity, which, like the numbers representing sidereal distances, the imagination refuses to grasp.
Sumner acknowledges the staggering scale of wartime destruction, likening it to incomprehensible astronomical numbers.
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