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168 though fearful repose. Napoleon had been driven into exile, but the spirit of revolutions had not been subdued. Although the storm had ceased to rage without; yet everywhere, within, her civil and social institutions had been thrown into confusion by the tremendous concussions to which she had been subjected. The face of society was wholly unsettled, and every institution shook, and quivered, like some frail bark upon the tremulous bosom of a troubled ocean. This was in all respects a most favorable spot for the introduction of Homœopathy. Here Hahnemann made his stand, unpacked his bundles, and began to publish his new scheme; and, like some wandering gipsy, soon drew around him many who gazed and wondered, and some who believed or pretended to believe.

When we consider the vacillating and enthusiastic temperament of the people, and the state of the public mind in France at that time, we wonder not that so many, but that so few, embraced the new doctrine. When we see this same people in a single day renounce all their religious institutions, profane, despoil and