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Though these reflections were doubtless 

 more applicable before the revolution, and 

 even before the restoration of the throne, 

 they are still, to a certain degree, just. But 

 let me not lightly reproach an august nation 

 with faults to which a corrective has been 

 applied , radical in its effects , though neces- 

 sarily slow in its operation. They will disap- 

 pear as its institutions become more popu- 

 lar, so that public consideration shall be ob- 

 tained by public services , and not by the fa- 

 vour of the great. Experience has not been 

 thrown away upon the French people ; they 

 are forming a national character, in whose 

 splendour, the glory by which they and Eu- 

 rope have been dazzled, will be swallowed 

 up and lost. Their liberty was planted amid 

 storms that threatened the social world with 

 dissolution; it has resisted the hostile in- 

 fluence of every element, and it will rise 

 and spread itself, ample and strong, till it 



aud the misguided sovereign who should seek to arrest 

 its progress, would be treated, not like Charles I and 

 Louis XVI , but like James II. 



One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is to have 

 obviated the necessity of future violence. 



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