One of your absurd pretensions is to be the only people in the world who understand how to love, or who care for domestic ties.

You will see, by the hatred which we shall ever bear to you, that we too know how to love--our time will come some day, be assured.

This January 1 of the year 1871 inaugurates a terrible era of bloody revenge.

Poor philosophers of universal peace, you see now the value of your grand phrases and of your humanitarian dreams! Vainly you imagined that the world was entering into a period of everlasting peace and progress.

A wonderful progress, indeed, has 1870 brought us! You never calculated on the existence of these Huns.