As in the Roman empire in the fourth century, in Italy in the seventeenth century, in the Turkish provinces in our own day, naught remains but an ill-conducted herd of stunted, torpid creatures, limited to their daily wants and animal instincts, indifferent to the public welfare and to their own prospective interests, so degenerate as to have lost sight of their own discoveries, unlearned their own sciences, arts and industries, and, in short, and worse than all, base, false, corrupted souls entirely wanting in honor and conscience.

Nothing is more destructive than the unrestricted meddling of the State, even when wise and paternal; in Paraguay, under the discipline of Jesuits, so minute in its details, "Indian physiognomy appeared like that of animals taken in a trap." They worked, ate, drank and gave birth by sound of bells, under watch and ward, correctly and mechanically, but showing no liking for anything, not even for their own existence, being transformed into so may automatons; at least it may be said is that the means employed to produce this result were gentle and that they, before their transformation were mere brutes.

But those who the revolutionary-Jesuit now undertakes to transform into robots, and by harsh means, are human beings.
VIII.

Comparison between despotisms.
Comparison between despotisms .-- Philip II and Louis XIV .-- Cromwell and Frederick the Great .-- Peter the Great and the Sultans .-- Relationship between the tasks the Jacobins are to carry out and the assets at their disposal .-- Disproportion between the burdens they are to carry and the forces at their disposal .-- Folly of their undertaking .-- Physical force the only governmental force they possess .-- They are compelled to exercise it .-- They are compelled to abuse it .-- Character of their government .-- Character requisite of their leaders.
Several times, in European history, despotism almost equally harsh have born down heavily on human effort; but never have any of them been so thoroughly inept; for none have ever attempted to raise so heavy a mass with so short a lever.

And to start with, no matter how authoritative the despot might have been, his intervention was limited .-- Philip II.