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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