If the mainspring of popular government in peacetime is virtue, amid revolution it is at once virtue and terror: virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue is impotent.
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31 May 2015
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I hope you have a chance to discuss the white terror after Thermidor.
Posted by: PrestoVivace | 01 June 2015 at 02:37 PM
I wish you say something on the impact Danton execution had on the people if it was any.
Posted by: nati | 01 June 2015 at 06:01 PM
I'm also interested to know what impact danton's execution had on the people.
Posted by: fnm | 02 June 2015 at 03:36 AM
Off topic but perhaps of interest to THOR fans. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/11651780/Gladiator-school-to-be-restored-in-Rome.html
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Posted by: Adam Lewis | 04 June 2015 at 08:13 PM