CHAPTER I.THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NEW POLITICAL ORGAN.
In this disorganized society, in which the passions of the people are the sole real force, authority belongs to the party that understands how to flatter and take advantage of these.

As the legal government can neither repress nor gratify them, an illegal government arises which sanctions, excites, and directs these passions.

While the former totters and falls to pieces, the latter grows stronger and improves its organization, until, becoming legal in its turn, it takes the other's place.
I .-- Principle of the revolutionary party.
Its applications.
As a justification of these popular outbreaks and assaults, we discover at the outset a theory, which is neither improvised, added to, nor superficial, but now firmly fixed in the public mind.

It has for a long time been nourished by philosophical discussions.

It is a sort of enduring, long-lived root out of which the new constitutional tree has arisen.