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then arguments were invented to justify the surrender. The fallacies which I have been examining in this chapter are the net produce of this ex post facto process. They are a sorry lot after all, and the first maritime people that has the courage to say "We will resume our maritime rights," will see these phantom idols, like "gibbering ghosts," disappear in the mists of the ocean.
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