Rousseau's proposition into the form of a motion and demand a vote on it."-- In like manner it is proposed to grant very young girls the right of marrying in spite of their parents by stating, according to the "Nouvelle Heloise" "that a girl thirteen or fourteen years old begins to sigh for the union which nature dictates.

She struggles between passion and duty, so that, if she triumphs, she becomes a martyr, something that is rare in nature.
It may happen that a young person prefers the serene shame of defeat to a wearisome eight year long struggle." Divorce is inaugurated to "preserve in matrimony that happy peace of mind which renders the sentiments livelier."[2214] Henceforth this will no longer be a chain but "the acquittance of an agreeable debt which every citizen owes to his country...

Divorce is the protecting spirit of marriage."[2215] On a background of classic pedantry, with only vague and narrow notions of ordinary instruction, lacking exact and substantial information, flow obscenities and enlarged commonplaces enveloped in a mythological gauze, spouting in long tirades as maxims from the revolutionary manual.

Such is the superficial culture and verbal argumentation from which vulgar and dangerous ingredients the intelligence of the new legislators is formed.[2216] III .-- Aspects of their sessions.
Scenes and display at the club .-- Co-operation of spectators.
From this we can imagine what their sessions were.

"More in-coherent and especially more passionate than those of the Constituent Assembly"[2217] they present the same but intensified characteristics.