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 ¬ CHAPTER IX. ¬In which Morten gives the Author an Account of the War -with Capet ia. ¬¦ A war now immediately followed between Armata and this unhappy country, which soon involving many other powerful nations against her, the entire mass of her population, from the very instinct of self-preservation, became one general camp; and her wild democracy being unequal to the rule of a people so circumstanced, the commander of her armies became her King. The stupendous exertions she then made are unparalleled, and nothing could have prevented her from overpowering all the states con- federated against her, but the wealth and energies of our extraordinary people. — We had lost the season at the outset, of turning Capetia into the paths of peace, or (if that were found to be hopeless) of leaving her to be herself con- sumed ¬