...they are devoid of strength and incapable of being fitted out for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses now reposing...on their shadows in perfect stillness — how soon, on any call of patriotism or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct...

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