Then he attacks yet more ancient and more solid foundations, positive religion, property and the family .-- For four years he has been satisfied with demolition and now he wants to construct.

His object is not merely to do away with a positive faith and suppress social inequality, to proscribe revealed dogmas, hereditary beliefs, an established cult, the supremacy of rank and superiority of fortunes, wealth, leisure, refinement and elegance, but he wants, in addition to all this, to re-fashion the citizen.

He wants to create new sentiments, impose natural religion on the individual, civic education, uniform ways and habits, Jacobin conduct, Spartan virtue; in short, nothing is to be left in a human being that is not prescribed, enforced and constrained .-- Henceforth, there is opposed to the Revolution, not alone the partisans of the ancient regime--priests, nobles, parliamentarians, royalists, and Catholics--but, again, every person imbued with European civilization, every member of a regular family, any possessor of a capital, large or small; every kind or degree of proprietor, farmer, manufacturer, merchant, artisan or farmer, even most of the revolutionaries.

Nearly all the revolutionaries count on escaping the constraints they impose, and who only like the strait jacket when it is on another's back .-- The influence of resistant wills at this moment becomes incalculable: it would be easier to raise a mountain, and, just at this moment, the Jacobins have deprived themselves of every moral force through which a political engineer acts on human wills.
Unlike Philip II.

and Louis XIV.