[116] All names are
transformed, those of months and of days, those of places and of
monuments, baptismal names and names of families: St. Denis has
become Franciade; Peter Gaspard is converted into Anaxagoras, and
Antoine-Louis into Brutus; Leroi, the deputy, calls himself Laloi, and
Leroy, the jurist, calls himself August-Tenth. - By dint of thus
shaping the exterior we reach the interior, and through outward civism
we prepare internal civism. Both are obligatory, but the latter much
more so than the former; for that is the fundamental principle,[117]
"the incentive which sustains and impels a democratic and popular
government." It is impossible to apply the social contract if
everybody does not scrupulously observe the first clause of it,
namely, the complete surrender of himself to the community; everybody,
then, must give himself up entirely, not only actually but heartily,
and devote himself to the public good, which public good is the
regeneration of Man as we have defined it. The veritable citizen is
he who thus marches along with us. With him, as with us, abstract
truths of philosophy control the conscience and govern the will. He
starts with our articles of faith and follows them out to the end; he
endorses our acts, he recites our creed, he observes our discipline,
he is a believing and practicing Jacobin, an orthodox Jacobin,
unsullied, and without taint of heresy or schism.
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