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«MR. PRESIDENT, – I am to speak of the Duel between France and Germany, with its Lesson to Civilization. In calling the terrible war now waging a Duel, I might content myself with classical authority, Duellum being a well-known Latin word for War. The historian Livy makes a Roman declare that affairs are to be settled «by a pure and pious duel»; [Footnote: «Puro pioqne duello.» – Historie, Lib.»
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