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	<title><![CDATA[The Moral Measure of a Civilization Is in Its Treatment of Enemies]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-atran/the-moral-measure-of-a-ci_b_188579.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[In the heat of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln made a speech in which
he referred sympathetically to the Southern rebels. A member of the
audience lambasted him for wanting to treat his enemies kindly when he
ought to be thinking of destroying them. Lincoln's answer:
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"Why, madam, do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"
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Harshness and cruelty were to be banished from the moral imagination
of the nation he was trying to save.
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The late Jack Maple, a famously flamboyant but...</p></p></p></p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-04-18T13:33:00-04:00</date_published>
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