" The next day they set out for the casemates
of Rh? and Ol?ron, or for the Sinnamary marshes, where it is known
what becomes of them: after a few months, three-fourths of them lie in
the cemetery. - In the interior, from time to time, some are shot as
an example - seven at Besan?on, one at Lyons, three in the Bouches-du-
Rh?ne, while the opponents of fanaticism, the official
philanthropists, the enlightened deists of Fructidor, use all these
disguised or declared murders as a basis on which to rear the cult of
Reason.
It remains now to consolidate the worship of Reason with the reign of
Equality, which is the second article in the Jacobin credo. The
object now is to mow down all the heads which rise above the common
level, and, this time, to mow them down, not one by one, but in large
groups. Saint-Just himself had only covertly proposed so extensive
and so sweeping an operation. Si?y?s, Merlin de Douai, Reubell,
Chazal, Ch?nier, and Boulay de la Meurthe, more openly and decidedly
insist on a radical amputation. According to them,[97] it is
necessary "to regulate this ostracism," by banishing "all those whose
prejudices, pretensions, even existence, in a word, are incompatible
with republican government.
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