National Gazette

To those who are shaken by every breath of report relative to the ill success or possible miscarriage of the Revolution in France, the following question might be pertinently addressed: Can you seriously suppose that the present struggle of that nation is not the beginning of that universal reformation which is about to take place in the world for the general benefit of the human race, and which will unfold itself into successful reality? or, can you suppose, upon a candid review of the history of man, that this globe is to be forever inhabited and governed, or rather wasted and abused, by so malignant and contemptible a being as in the ages past, thro' the influence of false government, man has shown himself to be? Certainly not: and such a supposition would imply a defect in that wisdom and due proportion of things which is generally observable (tho' its advances may have been gradual) in the inferior ranks of the animated creation, and the world of nature around us.