Looking at these enormous spaces, adapted to the eye rather than to the ear, I turn with envy to that other chamber where the Senate sat so many honorable years, and listened to speeches which now belong to the permanent literature of the country.
Sumner expresses nostalgia for a previous Senate chamber that was more conducive to listening and debate.
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