(SR).] [Footnote 1118: "Tableaux de la Revolution Francaise," by Schmidt (especially the reports by Dutard), 3 vols.] [Footnote 1119: "Correspondence of Gouverneur Morris,"-- "Memoirs of Mallet du Pan," John Moore'] [Footnote 1120: See, in "Progres de l'esprit humaine," the superiority awarded to the republican constitution of 1793.

(Book IX.) "The principles from which the constitution and laws of France have been combined are purer, more exact, and deeper than those which governed the Americans: they have more completely escaped the influence of every sort of prejudice, etc."] [Footnote 1121: Camille Desmoulins, the enfant terrible of the Revolution, confesses this, as well as other truths.

After citing the Revolutions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, "which derived their virtue from and had their roots in conscience, which were sustained by fanaticism and the hopes of another world," he thus concludes: "Our Revolution, purely political, is wholly rooted in egotism, in everybody's amour propre, in the combinations of which is found the common interest." ("Brissot devoile," by Camille Desmoulins, January, 1792)--Bouchez et Roux, XIII, 207.)] [Footnote 1122: Rousseau's idea of the omnipotence of the State is also that of Louis XIV and Napoleon...

It is curious to see the development of the same idea in the mind of a contemporary bourgeois, like Retif de la Bretonne, half literary and half one of the people ("Nuits de Paris," XVe nuit, 377, on the September Massacres) "No, I do not pity those fanatical priests; they have done the country too much mischief.
Whatever a society, or a majority of it, desires, that is right.

He who opposes this, who calls down war and vengeance on the Nation, is a monster.