The resemblance, indeed, is that of Pascal's Jesuits to the Jesus of the Gospel.] [Footnote 3188: "The Ancient Regime," p.262.] [Footnote 3189: Garat, "Memoires," 84.

Garat who is himself an ideologist, notes "his eternal twadle about the rights of man, the sovereignty of the people, and other principles which he was always talking about, and on which he never gave utterance to one precise or fresh idea."] [Footnote 3190: Read especially his speech on the constitution, (May 10, 1793), his report on the principles of Republican Government, (Dec.15, 1793), his speech on the relationship between religious and national ideas and republican principles (May 7, 1794) and speech of Thermidor 8.-Carnot: "Memoires," II., 512.

"In all deliberations on affairs he contributed nothing but vague generalities."] [Footnote 3191: During this century all important Jacobin leaders, Hitler, Mussolini, Lenin, Stalin, Castro etc.

have in their turn followed robespierre's example and bored their captive audiences with their interminable speeches.

(SR).] [Footnote 3192: Buchez et Roux, XXXIII., 406.