Speech at anniversary of the People's Paper

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Publisher:  The People#s Paper
Date Written:  14/04/1856
Year Published:  1856  
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX11006

The so-called revolutions of 1848 were but poor incidents - small fractures and fissures in the dry crust of European society. However, they denounced the abyss. Beneath the apparently solid surface, they betrayed oceans of liquid matter, only needing expansion to rend into fragments continents of hard rock.