We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.
“All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army.”
“Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a country might have to undergo under the system which we seek to establish here, that country ought to do its duty.”