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It was not, however, till the era of the French Revolution, that the stream of knowledge began to flow with an accelerated progress, and to shed its influence more extensively on the mid dling and the lower orders of society. Though we cannot look back, without feelings of regret, and even of horror, at the revolting scenes d anarchy and bloodshed which accompanied that political convulsion, yet, amidst all its evils, it was productive of many important and beneficial recalls. It tended to undermine that system of superstition and tyranny by which most of the European nations had been so long enslaved; it rowed million, hu among the mass of the people, to assert those rights and privileges, to whichtheyareentitledas rationalbeings,and which had been withheld from them by the strong bad ofpower; itstimulated them to in vestigations into every department connected with therights ad the happiness of man, and it excited a spirit of inquiry into every subject of contemplation which can improve or adorn the human mid, which, we trust, will never be extinguished, till the light of useful knowledge shall extend its influence over all the inhabit ants of the earth.
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