“The Revolution began at the top,—in the world of fashion, birth, and intellect,—and propagated itself downwards.”

—  Francis Parkman

Source: Montcalm and Wolfe http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14517/14517-8.txt (1884), Ch. 1

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