He's a madman certainly; but there are so many excuses to be urged for him.

At bottom he is simply a martyr who has followed the wrong track.

And yet he has become the scapegoat, laden with the crimes of the whole nation, condemned to pay for one and all!" Bache and Morin nodded without replying.

They both professed horror of Anarchism; while Morin, forgetting that the word if not the thing dated from his first master Proudhon, clung to his Comtist doctrines, in the conviction that science alone would ensure the happiness and pacification of the nations.

Bache, for his part, old mystical humanitarian that he was, claimed that the only solution would come from Fourier, who by decreeing an alliance of talent, labour and capital, had mapped out the future in a decisive manner.