Identifier: onehundredyearso00morr (find matches)
Title: One hundred years of conflict between the nations of Europe, the causes and issues of the great war;
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Morris, Charles, 1833-1922
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: (Philadelphia, Printed by G. F. Lasher & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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eteenth century with little relief from its terrible exactions. We see before us in that country the spectacle of a people steeped in misery, crushed by tyranny, robbed of all political rights, and without a voice to make their sufferings known; and of an aristocracy lapped in luxury, proud, vain, insolent,lavish with the peoples money, ruthless with the peoples blood,and blind to the specter of retribution which was rising higher year by year before their eyes. ISSUES OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION This era of injustice and oppression reached its climax in the closing years of the eighteenth century, and went down at length in that hideous nightmare of blood and terror known as the French Revolution. Frightful as this was, it was unavoidable. The pride and privilege of the aristocracy had the people by the throat,and only the sword or the guillotine could loosen their hold. It was the need of money for the spendthrift throne that precipitated the Revolution. For years the indignation of the people
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