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e secret party members directed to seek a career inside the various legal administrations for, one day, to see all superior courts staffed by their men. (SR).] [Footnote 1111: Mallet du Pan, "Correspondance politique." 1796.] [Footnote 1112: "Entretiens du Pere Gerard," by Collot d'Herbois.--"Les Etrennes au Peuple," by Barrere.-"La Constitution francaise pour les habitants des campagnes," etc.--Later "L'Alphabet des Sans-Culottes, le Nouveau Catechisme republicain, les Commandements de la Patrie et de la Republique (in verse), etc."] [Footnote 1113: Mercure de France, an article by Mallet du Pan, April 7, 1792. (Summing up of the year 1791.)] [Footnote 1114: Mercure de France, see the numbers of Dec. 30, 1791, and April 7, 1792. (Note the phrase, it is close to Marx statement in 1850 'that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.' SR.)] [Footnote 1115: Fox, before deciding on any measure, consulted a Mr. H.--, one of the most uninfluential, and even narrow-minded members of the House of Commons. Some astonishment being expressed at this, he replied that he regarded Mr. H.---as a perfect type of the faculties and prejudices of a country gentleman, and he used him as a thermometer. Napoleon likewise stated that before framing an important law, he imagined to himself the impression it would make on the mind of a burly peasant.] [Footnote 1116: Just like the strong influence which the current fashionable principles and buzz-words introduced by the media have over today's audiences. (SR).] [Footnote 1117: Alas! This phenomenon should be repeated with the interminable speeches held by Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Castro, Mao and all the other inheritors of the Jacobin creed. (SR).] [Footnote 1118: "Tableaux de la Revolution Francaise," by Schmidt (especially the reports by Dutard), 3 vols.] [Footnote 1119: "Correspondence of Gouverneur Morris,"--"Memoirs of Mallet du Pan," John Moore'] [Footnote 1120: See, in "Progres de l'esprit humaine," the superiority awarded to the republican constitution of 1793. (Book IX.) "The principles from which the constitution and laws of France have been combined are purer, more exact, and deeper than those which governed the Americans: they have more completely escaped the influence of every sort of prejudice, etc."] [Footnote 1121: Camille Desmoulins, the enfant terrible of the Revolution, confesses this, as well as other truths. After ci
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