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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 3 (of 6)

CHAPTER I
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Who would dare then dispute the power of humanity?
It is this indisputable power that a nation has, to hang even an innocent man, felt by the ancient Greeks, which led them to exile Aristoteles and put Phocion to death.

'Oh truth, unrecognized by our contemporaries, what evil has arisen through forgetting it!'"] [Footnote 1123: Moniteur, XI.46.Speech by Isnard in the Assembly, Jan.

5, 1792.

"The people are now conscious of their dignity.

They know, according to the constitution, that every Frenchman's motto is: 'Live free, the equal of all, and one of the common sovereignty.'"-- Guillon de Montleon, I.445.Speech by Chalier, in the Lyons Central Club, March 21, 1793.


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