. . .
When you knew that the tyrant's fall was prepared and inevitable you
returned to Paris on the 9th of August. You wanted to go to bed on
that evil night. . . . Hatred, you said, is insupportable to me
and (yet) you said to us 'I do not like Marat,' etc." There is an
apostrophe of nine consecutive pages against Danton, who is absent.
[70] Buchez et Roux, Ibid., 312. "Liberty emanated from the bosom of
tempests; its origin dates with that of the world issuing out of chaos
along with man, who is born dissolved in tears." (Applause.) - Ibid.,
308. Cf. his portrait, got up for effect, of the "revolutionary who
is "a treasure of good sense and probity."
[71] Ibid., 312. "Liberty is not the chicanery of a palace; it is
rigidity towards evil."
[72] Bar?re, " M?moires," I. 347. "Saint-Just . . . discussed
like a vizier."
[73] Buchez et Roux, XXXII., 314. "Are the lessons furnished by
history, the examples afforded by all great men, lost to the universe?
These all counsel us to lead obscure lives; the lowly cot and virtue
form the grandeurs of this world. Let us seek our habitations on the
banks of streams, rock the cradles of our children and educate them in
Disinterestedness and Intrepidity.
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