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That is the way truth prevails: discovered by the "prophet," packaged to remote parts by journalists, taken up by the best talkers in every locality, until it finds its way into everybody's mouth. Only then is it fulfilled, only then has it been integrated into the pattern of culture of the people. Lincoln talked the same way about the equality of man and the wrong of slavery. By and by, so many people talked about it in the same spirit that a movement for a free country followed. Unfortunately not enough people did the right kind of talking all over the country — and so a long, bloody civil war brought about what free and vigorous conversation should have brought about peacefully. |
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