"Each citizen must be a soldier and each soldier a citizen."-- The first application of the principle is a call for 300,000 men (Feb.

26, 1793), then through a levy on the masses which brings 500,000 men under the flag, nominally volunteers, but conscripts in reality.

(Baron Poisson, "l'Armee et la Garde Nationale,"III, 475.)] [Footnote 3262: Taine wrote this in 1888, after the end of the second French Empire, after the transformation of Prussia into the Empire of Germany.

Taine apparently had a premonition of the terrible wars of the 20th century, of Nazism, Communism and their death and concentration camps.

(SR.)] [Footnote 3263: Baron Poisson, "l'Armee et la Garde nationale," III., 475.