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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

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to represent. Of these we have already had a

definition from Webster, and seen a practical

illustration in the French Revolution. Thiers’s

French Revolution, Vol. III, p. 106, gives the

whole number of persons guillotined during

the reign of terror as 1,022,351, besides

massacres of other kinds in other places, in

some of which the population of whole towns

perished. Dr. Dick, in his Improvement of

Society, p. 154, says: “Such was the rapidity

with which the work of destruction was

carried on, that within the short space of ten

years not less than three million human

beings... are supposed to have perished in that

country alone, chiefly through the influence of

immoral principles, and the seductions of a

false philosophy.”