[The Origins of Contemporary France Volume 3 (of 6) by Hippolyte A. Taine]@TWC D-Link bookThe Origins of Contemporary France Volume 3 (of 6) CHAPTER I 38/44
(Summing up of the year 1791.)] [Footnote 1114: Mercure de France, see the numbers of Dec.
30, 1791, and April 7, 1792.
(Note the phrase, it is close to Marx statement in 1850 'that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.' SR.)] [Footnote 1115: Fox, before deciding on any measure, consulted a Mr. H.--, one of the most uninfluential, and even narrow-minded members of the House of Commons.
Some astonishment being expressed at this, he replied that he regarded Mr.H .-- -as a perfect type of the faculties and prejudices of a country gentleman, and he used him as a thermometer. Napoleon likewise stated that before framing an important law, he imagined to himself the impression it would make on the mind of a burly peasant.] [Footnote 1116: Just like the strong influence which the current fashionable principles and buzz-words introduced by the media have over today's audiences.
(SR).] [Footnote 1117: Alas! This phenomenon should be repeated with the interminable speeches held by Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Castro, Mao and all the other inheritors of the Jacobin creed.
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