Matthias Wasser wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com>wrote:
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> > Looks like he also forgot something else:
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> > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> > > when ultimately overwhelmed by the insurmountable numbers and resources
> > of
> > > the Union Army, . . .
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> > . . . and not by the justice of their cause, in case anyone wondered about
> > that . . . .
> >
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> How many divisions has justice?
Actually, quite a few, though a draft was ultimately necessary. Bertrand Russell's defense of the proposition that might makes right was that a consensus on right added up to a lot of might. If I recall correctly, there were quite a few men from Arkansas in the Union Army.
Carrol