The Story of the French Revolution by Ernest Belfort Bax | Episode 1 |
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The Story of the French Revolution
The french revolution is an inexhaustible quarry. Many works have been written upon it. And safe it is to predict that something of value will be brought out. The story of the french revolution furnishes an instance, and the instance is brought out all the clearer by comparison with the story of the american revolution. Same causes lead to same results. Causes run imperceptibly into results; reaction of results upon causes is so subtle that the two are often confused. It is as important as it is often difficult to separate causes from accompaniments and properly group them. These are the pitfalls into which the superficial reader falls, and due to which the lessons of history are mainly lost to him.
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