text:  How is it possible to keep Europe in peace when the Continent is as rotten as thatch and France as combustible as gunpowder?--The minister is a man of wonders but he cannot prevent thirty millions of maniacs from playing their antics until they are cooled by blood-letting; or a hundred millions of Germans Spaniards Dutch and Italians from being pilfered to their last coin!--Old Frederick the greatest genius that ever sat upon a German throne saw this fifty years ago