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A century which has no history and can have little or none. A century so opulent in accumulated falsities .. as never century before was! Which had no longer the consciousness of being false, so false had it grown; and was so steeped in falsity, and impregnated with it to the very bone, that - in fact the measure of the thing was full, and a French Revolution had to end it.. A very fit termination, as I thankfully feel, for such a century.. For there was need once more of a Divine Revelation to the torpid, frivolous children of men, if they were not to sink altogether into the ape condition. - Frederick the Great, Book I, Chap. I.
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