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Nevertheless this very ferocity was not only inevitable, but it was in a certain sense proper; or, at least, even if many of its manifestations were blamable, the spirit that lay behind them was right.
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Roosevelt discusses the inevitability and justification of the ferocity in conflicts among borderers during the Revolutionary War.
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