ent will be prosecuted in the police court for obstructing a
public thoroughfare."--The Thermidorians remain equally as anti-Catholic
as their predecessors; only, they disavow open persecution and rely on
slow pressure. (Moniteur, XIII., 523. Speech by Boissy d'Anglas, Ventose
3, year II.) "Keep an eye on what you cannot hinder; regulate what you
cannot prohibit.... It will not be long before these absurd dogmas, the
offspring of fear and error, whose influence on the human mind has been
so steadily destructive, will be known only to be despised.... It will
not be long before the religion of Socrates, of Marcus Aurelius and
Cicero will be the religion of the whole world."]

[Footnote 2139: Moniteur, XVI., 646. (The King's trial.) Speech by
Robespierre: "the right of punishing the tyrant and of dethroning him is
one and the same thing."--Speech by Saint-Just: "Royalty is an eternal
crime, against which every man has the right of taking up arms... To
reign innocently is impossible!"]

[Footnote 2140: Epigraph of Marat's journal: Ute readapt miseries, abet
Fortuna superb is.]

[Footnote 2141: Buchez et Roux, XXXII., 323. (Report of Saint-Just,
Germinal 21, year II., and a decree of Germinal 26-29, Art. 4, 13,
15.)--Ibid., 315.]

[Footnote 2142: Buchez et Roux, (Report of Saint-Just, October 10,
1793.) "That would be the only good they could do their country.... It
would be no more than just for the people to reign over its oppressors
in its turn, and that their pride should be bathed in the sweat of their
brows."]

[Footnote 2143: Ibid., XXXI., 309. (Report of Saint-Just, Ventose 8,
year II.)]

[Footnote 2144: Ibid., XXVI. 435. (Speech by Robespierre on the
constitution, May 10, 1793.) "What were our usages and pretended laws
other than a code of impertinence and baseness, where contempt of men
was subject to a sort of tariff, and graduated according to regulations
as odd as they were numerous? To despise and be despised, to cringe in
order to rule, slaves and tyrants in turn, now kneeling before a master,
now trampling the people under foot--such was the ambition of all of
us, so long as we were men of birth or well educated men, whether common
folks or fashionable folks, lawyers or financiers, pettifoggers or
wearing swords."--Archives Nationales, F7, 31167. (Report of the
observatory Chaumont, Nivose 10, year II.)--"Boolean's effigy, placed in
the college of Lisle, has been lowered to the statues of the saints,