The Death of Tom Paine

The Rebel

An Appeal to the Young

Daily Dose

From Volpone, by Ben Jonson

(ENTER MOSCA, BLEEDING)

"Where shall I run, most wretched shame of men,
To beat out my unlucky brains?"

From Act III, scene viii

A Revolutionary March from Balzac

Daily Dose

From Caesar: A Sketch, by James Anthony Froude

DARK COLORS

"Revolutionary periods are painted in history in colors so dark that the reader wonders how, amidst such scenes, peaceful human beings could continue to exist. He forgets that the historian describes only the abnormal incidents which broke the current of ordinary life, and that between the spasms of violence there were long quiet intervals when the ordinary occupations of men went on as usual."

From Chapter VIII