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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 



and 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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