One of them, appealing to the women, wants to see "the declaration of the Rights of Man suspended on the walls of their bedrooms as their principal ornament, and, should war break out, these virtuous supporters, marching at the head of our armies like new bacchantes with flowing hair, the wand of Bacchus in their hand." Shouts of applause greet this sentiment.

The minds of the listeners, swept away by this gale of declamation, become overheated and ignite through mutual contact; like half-consumed embers that would die out if let alone, they kindle into a blaze when gathered together in a heap .-- Their convictions, at the same time, gain strength.

There is nothing like a coterie to make these take root.

In politics, as in religion, faith generating the church, the latter, in its turn, nourishes faith.

In the club, as in the private religious meeting, each derives authority from the common unanimity, every word and action of the whole tending to prove each in the right.