And if in this deluge of blood, which has submerged the world, there is a Mount Ararat, upon which the ark of a truer and better peace can find refuge, it has not yet appeared above the troubled surface of the waters.
Beck uses the metaphor of Noah's Ark to express hope for a better peace amid the chaos of war.
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