Thus spoke Jules Simon in 1882.
The 'civic duties' of man brought France in 1792 to the 'Law of Suspects,' to the headlong and brutal demolition of the whole social edifice, to confiscation, and to the guillotine.
To what will the 'civic duties' of man bring France, and, with France, the civilization of Christendom, in 1892?
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FRANCE.
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