I voted for the death of that tyrant.

That tyrant engendered royalty, which is authority falsely understood, while science is authority rightly understood.

Man should be governed only by science." "And conscience," added the Bishop.
"It is the same thing.

Conscience is the quantity of innate science which we have within us." Monseigneur Bienvenu listened in some astonishment to this language, which was very new to him.
The member of the Convention resumed:-- "So far as Louis XVI.

was concerned, I said 'no.' I did not think that I had the right to kill a man; but I felt it my duty to exterminate evil.
I voted the end of the tyrant, that is to say, the end of prostitution for woman, the end of slavery for man, the end of night for the child.
In voting for the Republic, I voted for that.