On the contrary, the new constitution, through its theoretical declarations and the practical application of these, invites them to let themselves go .-- For, on the one hand, legally, it declares to be based upon pure reason, beginning with a long string of abstract dogmas from which its positive prescriptions are assumed to be rigorously deduced.

As a consequence all laws are submitted to the shallow comments of reasoners and quibblers who will both interpret and break them according to the principles.[1110]--On the other hand, as a matter of fact, it hands over all government powers to the elections and confers on the clubs the control of the authorities: which is to offer a premium to the presumption of the ambitious who put themselves forward because they think themselves capable, and who defame their rulers purposely to displace them .-- Every government department, organization or administrative system is like a hothouse which serves to favor some species of the human plant and wither others.

This one is the best one for the propagation and rapid increase of the coffee-house politician, club haranguer, the stump-speaker, the street-rioter, the committee dictator--in short, the revolutionary and the tyrant.

In this political hothouse wild dreams and conceit will assume monstrous proportions, and, in a few months, brains that are now only ardent become hotheads.
Let us trace the effect of this excessive, unhealthy temperature on imaginations and ambitions.

The old tenement is down; the foundations of the new one are not yet laid; society has to be made over again from top to bottom.