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Charles Sumner: “Yet this was not without that painful experience which teaches what Art has so often attempted to picture and Eloquence…”

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Yet this was not without that painful experience which teaches what Art has so often attempted to picture and Eloquence to describe, “The Miseries of War.” Again in that same fearless spirit has Germany driven back the invader, while War is seen anew in its atrocious works.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner emphasizes the painful lessons learned from war, which have been depicted in art and eloquence.

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