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THE DEPARTMENTS .-- THE EPEDEMIC AND CONTAGIOUS CHARACTER OF.
THE REVOLUTIONARY DISEASE.
In the departments, it is by hundreds that we enumerate days like the 20th of June, August 10, September 2.

The body has its epidemic, its contagious diseases; the mind has the same; the revolutionary malady is one of them.

It appears throughout the country at the same time; each infected point infects others.

In each city, in each borough, the club is a Center of inflammation which disorganizes the sound parts; and the example of each disorganized Center spreads afar like contagious fumes.[3201] Everywhere the same fever, delirium, and convulsions mark the presence of the same virus.