We have been so often astonished and amazed, by shock after shock, and convulsion after convulsion, that I fear we are beginning to lose our moral sensibility to political catastrophes, however grand or fatal they may be.
Mann reflects on the desensitization of society to political upheaval due to frequent crises.
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