It does not survive itself, it braves recrimination and vengeance--it is absolute as an element--anonymous, as fatality--it completes its work, and when that is ended, says, "Let us rest; and let us assume monarchy." XII.
Such a plan of action is the republic--the only one that befits the trying period of transformation.

It is the government of passion, the government of crises, the government of revolutions.

So long as revolutions are unfinished, so long does the instinct of the people urge them to a republic; for they feel that every other hand is too feeble to give that onward and violent impulse necessary to the Revolution.

The people (and they act wisely), will not trust an irresponsible, perpetual, and hereditary power to fulfil the commands of the epochs of creation--they will perform them themselves.

Their dictatorship appears to them indispensable to save the nation; and what is a dictatorship but a republic?
It cannot resign its power until every crisis be over, and the great work of revolution completed and consolidated.