"Descartes,
Helvetius, Hailer, Lecat, Hume, Voltaire, Bonnet, held this to be an
impenetrable secret, 'an enigma.'" He has solved the problem, he has
fixed the seat of the soul, he has determined the medium through which
the soul communicates with the body.[13] - In the higher sciences,
those treating of nature generally, or of human society, he reaches
the climax. "I believe that I have exhausted every combination of the
human intellect in relation to morals, philosophy and political
science."[14] Not only has he discovered the true theory of
government, but he is a statesman, a practical expert, able to
forecast the future and shape events. He makes predictions, on the
average, twice a week, which always turn out right; he already claims,
during the early sessions of the Convention, to have made "three
hundred predictions on the leading points of the Revolution, all
justified by the event."[15] -- In the face of the Constituents who
demolish and reconstruct so slowly, he is sufficiently strong to take
down, put up and complete at a moment's notice.
"If I were one of the people's tribunes[16] and were supported by a
few thousand determined men, I answer for it that, in six weeks, the
Constitution would be perfected, the political machine well agoing,
and the nation free and happy.
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