Let it fail or falter and the great majority, undecided about what to do, lukewarm and busy elsewhere, ceases to be a corps and disintegrates into dust.

Of the two governments around which the nation might have rallied, the first one, after July 14, 1789, lies prostrate on the ground where it slowly crumbles away.

Now its ghost, which returns, is still more odious because it brings with it the same senseless abuses and intolerable burdens, and, in addition to these, a yelping pack of claimants and recriminators.

After 1790 it appears on the frontier more arbitrary than ever at the head of a coming invasion of angry emigres and grasping foreigners .-- The other government, that just constructed by the Constituent Assembly, is so badly put together that the majority cannot use it.

It is not adapted to its hand; no political instrument at once so ponderous and so helpless was ever seen.