But if we take into account the lives of those benefactors of man-kind of which their services in the cause of their species were the purchase, how shall the cost of those heroic enterprises be estimated, and what compensation can be made to them or to their countries for them?
Adams contemplates the true cost of heroic endeavors and the value of sacrifices made for humanity.
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