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Socialists, Anarchists, and incendiaries. Such infernal men are making a nation, as a civilized nation in the world, false to her destiny, which is to spread abroad in that world and to defend therein with all her might the religion of Christ, which alone can lead man in the way of truth, and outside of which he finds neither law, truth, liberty, nor justice, and consequently neither peace, greatness, nor true civilization. But young Frenchmen as well as young Englishmen should be taught by the example of their parents and friends and often reminded that fidelity to one's flag and testimony to one's truth are of the first necessity if they would be honest men, and not apes for whom the most tolerant can have no respect nor the most charitable pity.