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Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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Report from Warren, RI, on Geneva, once a free republic and haven for French intellectuals like Voltaire and Rousseau fleeing Sorbonne persecution, now viewed by populace as aristocratic and tyrannical, with criticism of revolutionists advocating leveling of social, wealth, and talent hierarchies, evoking dread of revolutions.
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Geneva was formerly called a free republic. It was the seat of science, and the retreat of the literati of France, the Voltaires and Rousseaus, when persecuted by the doctors of the Sorbonne, for the freedom of their writings. The populace have now found out that the government is aristocratical and tyrannical. This may be so; but what shall we say of revolutionists, who openly avow the doctrine of leveling the aristocracy of manners, of riches, and of talents? No good man can hear such doctrine without dreading revolutions.
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Geneva was formerly called a free republic, seat of science, and retreat for persecuted French literati like Voltaires and Rousseaus by Sorbonne doctors. Populace now sees government as aristocratical and tyrannical. Revolutionists avow leveling aristocracy of manners, riches, and talents, causing dread of revolutions among good men.