Charles Sumner: “I use trivial illustrations, when I remind you that the coral-reef on which navies are wrecked is the work of the…”

“I use trivial illustrations, when I remind you that the coral-reef on which navies are wrecked is the work of the multitudinous insect,--that the unyielding stone is worn away by drops; but this is the law of Nature, under which no influence is lost.”