Look at Germany--look at Virginia--where opposite creeds mutually borrow the same sanctuaries, and where different sects fraternise in the same patriotism.

This is what we should tend to; these are the principles which ought gradually to implant themselves widely amongst a people: light ought to be the great precursor of the law.

Let us leave to despotism to prepare its slaves for its commands by ignorance." VIII.
Ducos, a young and generous-hearted Girondist, with whom enthusiasm for the honest carried him beyond the policy of his party, moved for the printing of this speech.

His voice was drowned amidst the applause and murmurs which followed--a testimony of the indecision and impartiality of men's minds.

Fauchet replied at the next sitting, and pointed out the connection between civil troubles and religious quarrels.