beaten to ruin; no Mayor interfering in time; Gorsas himself escaping,
pistol in hand, 'along the coping of the back wall.' Further that
Sunday, the morrow, was not a workday; and the streets were more
agitated than ever: Is it a new September, then, that these Anarchists
intend? Finally, that no September came;--and also that hysterics,
not unnaturally, had reached almost their acme. (Meillan, pp. 23, 24;
Louvet, pp. 71-80.)

Vergniaud denounces and deplores; in sweetly turned periods. Section
Bonconseil, Good-counsel so-named, not Mauconseil or Ill-counsel as it
once was,--does a far notabler thing: demands that Vergniaud, Brissot,
Guadet, and other denunciatory fine-spoken Girondins, to the number of
Twenty-two, be put under arrest! Section Good-counsel, so named ever
since the Tenth of August, is sharply rebuked, like a Section of
Ill-counsel; (Moniteur (Seance du 12 Mars), 15 Mars.) but its word is
spoken, and will not fall to the ground.

In fact, one thing strikes us in these poor Girondins; their fatal
shortness of vision; nay fatal poorness of character, for that is the
root of it. They are as strangers to the People they would govern;
to the thing they have come to work in. Formulas, Philosophies,
Respectabilities, what has been written in Books, and admitted by the
Cultivated Classes; this inadequate Scheme of Nature's working is all
that Nature, let her work as she will, can reveal to these men. So
they perorate and speculate; and call on the Friends of Law, when the
question is not Law or No-Law, but Life or No-Life. Pedants of the
Revolution, if not Jesuits of it! Their Formalism is great; great also
is their Egoism. France rising to fight Austria has been raised only by
Plot of the Tenth of March, to kill Twenty-two of them! This Revolution
Prodigy, unfolding itself into terrific stature and articulation, by
its own laws and Nature's, not by the laws of Formula, has become
unintelligible, incredible as an impossibility, the waste chaos of a
Dream.' A Republic founded on what they call the Virtues; on what
we call the Decencies and Respectabilities: this they will have, and
nothing but this. Whatsoever other Republic Nature and Reality send,
shall be considered as not sent; as a kind of Nightmare Vision, and
thing non-extant; disowned by the Laws of Nature, and of Formula. Alas!
Dim for the best eyes is this Reality; and as for these men, they will
not look at it with eyes at all, but only through 'facett