It is impossible not to observe, that, in the spirit of this geometrical distribution and arithmetical arrangement, these pretended citizens treat France exactly like a country of conquest.
Burke asserts that the French revolutionaries, through their abstract and systematic reforms, are treating France as if it were a conquered territory.
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