The new ones are suspicious, and instead of harmonizing them, it puts them out of gear in advance--the executive power, administrative powers, judicial powers, the police, the gendarmerie, and the army.[2154] Thanks to these precautions it is impossible for any of them to be turned against itself; but, also, thanks to these precautions, none of them can perform their functions.[2155] In building, as well as in destroying, the Assembly had two bad counselors, on the one hand fear, on the other hand theory; and on the ruins of the old machine which it had demolished without discernment, the new machine, which it has constructed without forecast, will work only to its own ruin.
***** [Footnote 2101: Arthur Young, June 15, 1789 .-- Bailly, passim,--Moniteur, IV.

522 (June 2, 1790) .-- Mercure de France (Feb.

11 1792).] [Footnote 2102: Moniteur, v.

631 (Sep.

12, 1790), and September 8th (what is said by the Abbe Maury) .-- Marmontel, book XIII.