Thomas Paine: “It is not the policy of Europe to suffer the extinction of any power, but only to lop off, or prevent its dangerous…”

The aristocracy has screened itself too much, and this serves to restore a part of the lost equilibrium.

He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

Man cannot, properly speaking, make circumstances for his purpose, but he always has it in his power to improve them when they occur, and this was the case in France.

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.