All the little quiet rivulets, that watered an humble, a contracted, but not an unfruitful field, are to be lost in the waste expanse, and boundless, barren ocean of the homicide philanthropy of France.
Burke critiques the loss of local patriotism in favor of a broader, destructive ideology.
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