[The Origins of Contemporary France Volume 4 (of 6) by Hippolyte A. Taine]@TWC D-Link bookThe Origins of Contemporary France Volume 4 (of 6) CHAPTER I 46/88
"The ancient Regime," 227-230, the ideas of Rousseau, of which those of Robespierre are simply a recast.] [Footnote 2122: Ibid., 270 .-- The pretension of reforming men's sentiments is found in all the programs.Ibid., 305.
(Report of Saint-Just, February 26, 1794.) "Our object is to create an order of things establishing a universal inclination toward the good, and to have factions immediately hurled upon the scaffold." Ibid., 337.
(Report of Saint-Just, March 13, 1794 .-- Ibid., 337.
(Report of Saint-Just, March 13, 1794.) "We see but one way of arresting the evil, and that is to convert the revolution into a civil power and wage war on every species of perversity, as designedly created amongst us for the enervation of the republic."] [Footnote 2123: Ibid., XXXV., 276.
(Institutions, by Saint-Just .-- Ibid., 287.)--Moniteur, XVIII., 343.
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