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A sad and evil feature of such warfare is that the whites, the representatives of civilization, speedily sink almost to the level of their barbarous foes, in point of hideous brutality.
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Roosevelt warns that in brutal conflicts, representatives of civilization can descend to the same level of brutality as their foes.
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