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Excerpt from Ance Victor of France, of the French Academy, Abridged and Translated From the Seventeenth French: With an Introductory Notice and a Continuation to the Year; Edition, Mrs. M. Carey
A great poet of another nation called France the soldier of God. For more than twelve centuries, indeed, she seems to have acted, fought, and conquered or suffered, for the whole world. It has been her singular privilege that nothing of the greatest magni tude has been accomplished in Europe without her having a hand in it; no great political or social experiment has been tried that has not first been worked out within her borders; and her history is a summary and abstract of the Whole history of modern civiliza tion. Such was the part played by Athens in the Greek world, and later, in the third age of ancient civilization, that Of Rome. For there is always one point at which the general life is most intense and rich, a focus in which civilization concentrates its scattered rays.
I will venture In a few lines to sum up the general course of our history and the civilizing mile of France.
At first, upon the soil of Gaul, the fortunate configuration of which Strabo admired to the degree of finding in it the proof of a divine providence, we see Only a confused mixture of mutually alien populations, Iberians and Gaels, Kymry and Teutons, Greeks and Italians, with the Old Celtic element predominating. Yet to sub due them required ten legions, Caesar, and his genius.
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