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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 3 (of 6)

CHAPTER II
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The argument is weaker, the invective more violent, and the dogmatism more intemperate.
Inflexibility degenerates into insolence, prejudice into fanaticism, and near-sightedness into blindness.

Disorder becomes a tumult and constant din an uproar.

Suppose, says an eye-witness, "a classroom with hundreds of pupils quarreling and every instant on the point of seizing each other by the hair.

Their dress neglected, their attitudes angry, with sudden transitions from shouting to hooting..

is a sight hard to imagine and to which nothing can be compared." It lacks nothing for making it a club of the lowest species.


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