Then came the time of stress and strain which culminated in the Civil War, the period of terrible struggle upon the issue of which depended the justification of all that we had done earlier, and which marked the second great period of growth and development within.
He discusses the Civil War as a critical period that tested the nation's earlier achievements and ideals.
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