“Isaac Cline was a creature of his times. He embodied the hubris of his times and, in many ways, was a victim of the storm, not just in material ways - loss of a family member and damage to the town - but also in metaphoric terms.”

Meaning

This reads as a judgment on how a person can be shaped, and undone, by the spirit of an age. It can be taken to mean that Cline was both responsible and trapped inside bigger forces of pride and disaster, which makes the quote fit a discussion of public failure after a catastrophe.

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Originally said in English.

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