He was rather a man for dispute than a man of anarchy.

Aristocrats always carry with them, into the popular party, the desire of order and command.

They would fain "Ride in the whirlwind and direct the storm." Real anarchists are those who are impatient of having always obeyed, and feel themselves impotent to command.

Condorcet had edited the _Chronique de Paris_ from 1789.

It was a journal of constitutional doctrines, but in which the throbbings of anger were perceivable beneath the cool and polished hand of the philosopher.