Word: abhor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...then the paramount duty to save the country properly silences private doubts. But it does not follow that whenever the government proposes any position on foreign affairs all criticism shall be dumb, and the nation shall follow docilely into any extreme, even into a war which the people may abhor. What is popular government, if the people have surrendered their right to consider every step of a policy which is officially announced as destined to lead, in one not improbable alternative, to a conclusion which must convulse the nation and may affect the civilization of the world? The fact...