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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
brought within the bar, she was unvailed

with great form, and placed on the right hand

of the president, when she was generally

recognized as a dancing girl of the opera, with

whose charms most of the persons present

were acquainted from her appearance on the

stage, while the experience of individuals was

further extended. To this person, as the fittest

representative of that reason whom they

worshiped, the National Convention of France

rendered public homage. This impious and

ridiculous mummery had a certain fashion;

and the installation of the Goddess of Reason

was renewed and imitated throughout the

nation, in such places where the inhabitants

desired to show themselves equal to all the

heights of the Revolution.” — Scott’s Life of

Napoleon.