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As a justification of these popular outbreaks and assaults, we discover at the outset a theory, which is neither improvised, added to, nor superficial, but now firmly fixed in the public mind. It has for a long time been nourished by philosophical discussions. It is a sort of enduring, long-lived root out of which the new constitutional tree has arisen. It is the dogma of popular sovereignty. -- Literally interpreted, it means that the government is merely an inferior clerk or servant.[1] We, the people, have established the government; and ever since, as well as before its organization, we are its masters. Between it and. | The Origins of Contemporary France by Hippolyte A. Taine 1 CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. The Origins of Contemporary France by Hippolyte A. Taine The Origins of Contemporary France by Hippolyte A. Taine 2 The Project Gutenberg Etext of The Origins of Contemporary France 3 in our series by Hippolyte A. Taine The French Revolution Volume 2 The Origins of Contemporary France Volume 3 Copyright laws are changing all over the world be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before posting these files Please take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts Etexts Readable By Both Humans and By Computers Since 1971 These Etexts Prepared By Hundreds of Volunteers and Donations Information on contacting Project Gutenberg to get Etexts and further information is included below. We need your donations. Title The French Revolution Volume 2 Title The Origins of Contemporary France Volume 3 Author Hippolyte A. Taine April 2001 Etext 2579 Most recently updated December 15 2002 The Project Gutenberg Etext of The Origins of Contemporary France This file should be named or Corrected EDITIONS of our etexts get a new NUMBER VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER This Etext prepared by Svend Rom. Translated by John Durand. Slightly corrected and normalized by Svend Rom whose remarks are signed SR. Project Gutenberg Etexts are usually created from multiple editions all of which are in the Public Domain in the United States unless a copyright notice is included. Therefore we .