The aim of the government is now clear: the wicked must submit to the good, or, which is briefer, the wicked must be suppressed.

To this end let us employ confiscation, imprisonment, exile, drowning and the guillotine and a large scale.

All means are justifiable and meritorious against these traitors; now that the Jacobin has canonized his slaughter, he slays through philanthropy .-- Thus is the forming of his personality completed like that of a theologian who becomes inquisitor.

Extraordinary contrasts are gathered to construct it:--a lunatic that is logical, and a monster that pretends to have a conscience.

Under the pressure of his faith and egotism, he has developed two deformities, one of the head and the other of the heart; his common sense is gone, and his moral sense is utterly perverted.