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women of my country ; it is by their weak arms that He loves to 
show forth His power and His natural sympathies for the cause of 
love and of liberty. It is by a virgin of Nanterre that He turned 
away from the banks of the Seine the devastating hurricane of 
the hordes of Attila ; by a virgin of Domremy that He chases, a 
thousand years afterward, from the noble territory of France, the 
Englishman, that other scourge of God ; it is by the hand of a 
virgin of T^ormandy that He slew the most sanguinary of the slaugh- 
terers of ’93. And God has not finished saving Europe by the 
same process. As He has raised a French virgin against the Hun, 
against the English, against the reign of terror. He will raise up 
one against the reign of money — never doubt it. 
I am told that the English, though chased out of France by the 
sword of a virgin, have not the less taken hold by commerce and 
pillage on all the rest of the globe ; that impure Albion, the great 
prostitute, the mistress of the seas, proudly raises her head above 
justice and the rights of conquered peoples; capturing in full 
peace Portuguese or Egyptian vessels, bombarding cities, and 
poisoning populations. I laugh at superb Albion, for I know that 
the days of her insolence are counted, and the new Joan of Arc 
is born to us, whose feeble arm shall break the golden Colossus 
with feet of clay, and crush the infamous creature under its wreck. 
And this virgin will not proceed with the sword, like the immor- 
tal heroine whom the English burned alive in punishment for her 
glory. She will only shed into the soul of her companions love of 
equity, and horror of traffic. She will make them all swear to re- 
nounce marriage sooner than to marry a merchant. She will kill 
trade, as the other virgins of Germany have killed slander. And 
the reign of the shop laid low, the tariff of consciences and of 
votes abolished, the Jew and the Genevese obliged to seek their 
fortunes elsewhere, the spirit of Albion will cease to rule French 
politics, and the great nation, liberated from fraud and banking, 
will regain its place as supreme directrix of the destinies of peo- 
ples. 
And attractive labor, freed from the oppression of capital, will 
realize suddenly the tenfold product. Innumerable armies, com- 
pletely strangers to the handling of homicidal arms, will soon re- 
