Excerpt from Ca Ira: Or Danton in the French Revolution

"The Revolution - call it good or bad

As you yearn toward the Future or the Past." - Victor Hugo.

All thoughtful people look forward to great changes in the near future, and many think that some catastrophe like that of the French Revolution is impending in all civilized countries. I feel confident that the young, who stand on the threshold of these events, can forestall the threatened catastrophe by assisting in the birth of a new social order. It is, therefore, you, young men and women! whom I especially hope to influence in these pages; whom I desire, not by cleverness, not by brilliancy, but by intense earnestness, to inspire with a new sense of duty, with the conviction of a call to interfere actively in the moulding of events. Such is the intent of this volume.

This work, perhaps, will be found, also, to be novel in this: that it presents to you the great French Revolution from a point of view from which it never before has been surveyed in print; not so much that it may serve as an example or a warning (though that also), but that it may be seen to have been a preparation for the work which should be performed by you.

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