Martin luther king said:
"the past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels
for carving out peaceful tomorrows."
how do you understand this sentence?

first of all, dante wanted to write an account of the search for spiritual atonement and salvation, and this desire drew heavily from dante's own experiences. dante was living in exile while writing inferno and so, much like his poetic counterpart, he felt like he had lost his way and needed direction.

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