, 311, 312.
[46] The head of a State may be considered in the same light as the
superintendent of an asylum for the sick, the demented and the infirm.
In the government of his asylum he undoubtedly does well to consult
the moralist and the physiologist; but, before following out their
instructions he must remember that in his asylum its inmates,
including the keepers and himself, are more or less ill, demented or
infirm.
[47] De Sybel: "Histoire de l'Europe pendant la Revolution Fran?aise,"
(Dosquet's translation from the German) II., 303. "It can now be
stated that it was the active operations of Danton and the first
committee of Public Safety which divided the coalition and gave the
Republic the power of opposing Europe . . . We shall soon see, on
the contrary, that the measures of the "Mountain" party, far from
hastening the armaments, hindered them."
[48] Ibid., I., 558, 562, 585. (The intermediaries were Westermann
and Dumouriez.)
[49] 2 Ibid., II., 28, 290, 291, 293.
[50] Buchez et Roux, XXV., 445. (Session of April 13, 1793.)
[51] According to a statement made by Count Theodore de Lameth, the
eldest of the four brothers Lameth and a colonel and also deputy in
the Legislative Assembly.
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