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That's worth underlining.
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Secondly, he argued that launching wars all over the place
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will merely play into the hands of the king,
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who at this point was still the king,
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and the counter revolutionaries,
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perhaps paving the way for some sort of military dictatorship.
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How forward-looking was that?
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Because that's exactly what they ended up with,
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of course, with Napoleon.
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Moreover, he argued that war would
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separate soldiers from the rest of the people.
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Indeed, the levée en masse--my guillotine almost fell down--