The public mind of France had become so excited and perverted by a variety of causes great and small, and of grievances real and imaginary, that at the proclamation for assembling the States-General the whole nation went mad, and to this hour has never recovered from its insanity.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The public mind of France had become so excited and perverted by a variety of causes great and small, and of grievances real and imaginary, that at the proclamation for assembling the States-General the whole nation went mad, and to this hour has never recovered from its insanity." in the context of "'Robespierre', The Quarterly Review (September 1835), p. 528" to mean that wisdom is timeless.