These disasters have served to call forth the best elements of human nature in our country and to develop a friendship for us on the part of foreign nations which goes far toward alleviating the distresses occasioned by these calamities.
Grant notes that disasters have revealed the best aspects of human nature and fostered international friendships during difficult times.
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