During the proconsulate of Baudot at Toulouse "almost all the patriots of 1789 were excluded from the popular club they had founded; an immense number were admitted whose patriotism reached only as far back as the 10th of August 1792, if it even went so far as the 31st of last May.

It is an established fact that out of more than 1,000 persons who now compose the club there are not fifty whose patriotism as far back as the beginning of the Revolution."] [Footnote 33111: Any tribune taking command of a mob of brutes is well advised to understand Taine's analysis.

One might think Hitler had read Taine pr somebody who had learned from his wisdom, somewhat like the Devil who had read the Bible.

See page 208, The Secret of Ruling the Masses, in Rauschning's book, "Hitler Speaks".

(SR).] [Footnote 33112: Roederer, "Chronique des cinquante jours."] [Footnote 33113: Schmidt, I.246 (Dutard, May 18).] [Footnote 33114: Schmidt, I.215 (Dutard, May 25).] [Footnote 33115: Buchez et Roux, XXV.