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It is the obligation of movements that consider themselves as would-be governments , which are bound by the same principles of humanitarian law as formally recognized Governments . The economic forces that make for liberalism had become largely impotent . They were borne for some distance down the rapid current , the surges roared round them , but the beautiful princesses clung to their Christian knights , and never uttered a complaint . In spite of its somewhat petty legalism and prosaic common sense , a note of veneration for the great document runs through the tedious pages , constituting the work at once both a commentary and a eulogy . The beautiful princesses were forthwith received into the bosom of the Church , and , after being in all due form made regular Christians , were rendered happy wives . In short , may it please Your Majesty , I abjure poisoning , or smothering with charcoal , and confess myself deplorably behind the spirit of this luminous age , which is as much in advance of all others , as the forewheel of a wagon is ahead of the hind ones .