He has a perception or obtains a glimpse of political ideas and, therefore, assumes that he has capacity.

But his perception is confided to a formula, and he sees them dimly through a cloud; hence his incapacity, and the reason why his mental lacunae as well as his attainments both contribute to make him a Jacobin.
II .-- Spontaneous associations after July 14, 1789.
How these dissolve .-- Withdrawal of people of sense and occupation .-- Number of those absent at elections .-- Birth and multiplication of Jacobin societies .-- Their influence over their adherents--Their maneuvers and despotism.
Men thus disposed cannot fail to draw near each other, to understand each other, and combine together; for, in the principle of popular sovereignty, they have a common dogma, and, in the conquest of political supremacy, a common aim.

Through a common aim they form a faction, and through a common dogma they constitute a sect, the league between them being more easily effected because they are a faction and sect at the same time.
At first their association is not distinguishable in the multitude of other associations.

Political societies spring up on all sides after the taking of the Bastille.

Some kind of organization had to be substituted for the deposed or tottering government, in order to provide for urgent public needs, to secure protection against ruffians, to obtain supplies of provisions, and to guard against the probably machinations of the court.