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Through all these bloody mists the eye of Faith discerns the ascending sun, struggling to shoot its life-giving beams upon the outspread earth, teeming with the grander products of a new civilization.
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Sumner uses a metaphor of light to symbolize hope and the emergence of a new civilization from the chaos of war.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
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