CHAPTER III.
I .-- Anarchy from July 14th to October 6th, 1789 Destruction of the Government .-- To whom does real power belong?
However bad a particular government may be, there is something still worse, and that is the suppression of all government.

For, it is owing to government that human wills form a harmony instead of chaos.
It serves society as the brain serves a living being.

Incapable, inconsiderate, extravagant, engrossing, it often abuses its position, overstraining or misleading the body for which it should care, and which it should direct.

But, taking all things into account, whatever it may do, more good than harm is done, for through it the body stands erect, marches on and guides its steps.

Without it there is no organized deliberate action, serviceable to the whole body.