Note 32 — LETTER I. ON THE OVERTURES OF PEACE. (continued 2)
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"This state of things cannot exist in France, without involving all the surrounding powers in one common danger,—without giving them the right, without imposing it upon them as a duty, to stop the progress of an evil which ... attacks the fundamental principles by which mankind is united in the bonds of civil society."—Declaration 29th Oct., 1793.