Do not suppose because I am reminding you of these things and shall remind you of some more, that I am trying to make you hate France.

I am only trying to persuade you to stop hating England.

I wish to show you how much reason you have not to hate her, which your school histories pass lightly over, or pass wholly by.

I want to make it plain that your anti-English complex and your pro-French complex entice your memory into retaining only evil about England and only good about France.

That is why I pull out from the recorded, certified, and perfectly ascertainable past, these few large facts.