The old Greek, suddenly enveloped in a cloud while battling with his enemies, exclaimed, “Give me to see!”--and this exclamation of the warrior is the exclamation, also, of every person in practical life, whether striving for country or only for himself.
Sumner draws a parallel between a Greek warrior's plea for vision and the universal human desire to understand one's situation.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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