"THE EVERLASTING STARS LOOK DOWN, LIKE GLISTENING EYES BRIGHT WITH IMMORTAL PITT, OVER THE LOT OF MAN." Five years, since the charred ruins of grim Bastille--stone image of Absolutism and of Autocracy--set the seal of victory upon the expression of a people's will and marked the beginning of that marvellous era of Liberty and of Fraternity which has led us step by step from the dethronement of a King, through the martyrdom of countless innocents, to the tyranny of an oligarchy more arbitrary, more relentless, above all more cruel, than any that the dictators of Rome or Stamboul ever dreamed of in their wildest thirst for power. An era that sees a populace always clamouring for the Millenniu…
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