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of the French Revolution. The hatred of persons, 

 of institutions or of things, was, at that epoch, 

 by no means confined to the detestation of the 

 mutually opposing parties. The leading men of 

 the Revolution detested not only their enemies, 

 but the members of their own party. During the 

 last years of the eighteenth century there was a 

 great outpouring of hate, especially in France. 

 The leaders believed so implicitly in themselves 

 that they could not tolerate the existence of others 

 who differed but in a hair's breadth from their 

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Commandant Colin, Professor at the College of 

 War, states : 



" In war more than at any other time there is 

 no better inspiring force than hatred ; it was 

 hatred that made Bliicher victorious over Na- 

 poleon. Analyse the most wonderful manoeuvres, 

 the most decisive operations, and if they are not 

 the work of an exceptional man, a Frederick or a 

 Napoleon, you will find they are inspired by 

 passion more than by calculation. What would 

 the war of 1870 have been without the hatred 

 which we bore the Germans ? ' 



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