Now, if she incites us to murderous acts, she has need of them;that once grasped, how may we suppose ourselves guilty in herregard when we do nothing more than obey her intentions? But thatis more than what is needed to convince any enlightened reader,that for murder ever to be an outrage to Nature is impossible. Isit a political crime? We must avow, on the contrary, that it is,unhappily, merely one of policy's and politics' greatestinstruments. Is it not by dint of murders that France is freetoday?
Needless to say, here we are referring to the murders occasionedby war, not to the atrocities committed by plotters and rebels; thelatter, destined to the public's execration, have only to berecollected to arouse forever general horror and indignation. Whatstudy, what science, has greater need
