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Teddy Roosevelt: “Yet the very causes which render this struggle between savagery and the rough front rank of civilization so vast and…”

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Yet the very causes which render this struggle between savagery and the rough front rank of civilization so vast and elemental in its consequence to the future of the world, also tend to render it in certain ways peculiarly revolting and barbarous.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt points out the paradox of the brutal nature of warfare between savagery and civilization, which has profound implications for the future.

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