y? The talent is one of instinct rather. It is that of
divining aright what this great dumb Whirlwind wishes and wills; that
of willing, with more frenzy than any one, what all the world wills.
To stand at no obstacles; to heed no considerations human or divine; to
know well that, of divine or human, there is one thing needful, Triumph
of the Republic, Destruction of the Enemies of the Republic! With this
one spiritual endowment, and so few others, it is strange to see how a
dumb inarticulately storming Whirlwind of things puts, as it were, its
reins into your hand, and invites and compels you to be leader of it.

Hard by, sits a Municipality of Paris; all in red nightcaps since
the fourth of November last: a set of men fully 'on a level with
circumstances,' or even beyond it. Sleek Mayor Pache, studious to be
safe in the middle; Chaumettes, Heberts, Varlets, and Henriot their
great Commandant; not to speak of Vincent the War-clerk, of Momoros,
Dobsents, and such like: all intent to have Churches plundered, to have
Reason adored, Suspects cut down, and the Revolution triumph. Perhaps
carrying the matter too far? Danton was heard to grumble at the civic
strophes; and to recommend prose and decency. Robespierre also grumbles
that in overturning Superstition we did not mean to make a religion
of Atheism. In fact, your Chaumette and Company constitute a kind
of Hyper-Jacobinism, or rabid 'Faction des Enrages;' which has given
orthodox Patriotism some umbrage, of late months. To 'know a Suspect on
the streets:' what is this but bringing the Law of the Suspect itself
into ill odour? Men half-frantic, men zealous overmuch,--they toil
there, in their red nightcaps, restlessly, rapidly, accomplishing what
of Life is allotted them.

And the Forty-four Thousand other Townships, each with revolutionary
Committee, based on Jacobin Daughter Society; enlightened by the
spirit of Jacobinism; quickened by the Forty Sous a-day!--The French
Constitution spurned always at any thing like Two Chambers; and yet
behold, has it not verily got Two Chambers? National Convention, elected
for one; Mother of Patriotism, self-elected, for another! Mother of
Patriotism has her Debates reported in the Moniteur, as important
state-procedures; which indisputably they are. A Second Chamber of
Legislature we call this Mother Society;--if perhaps it were not rather
comparable to that old Scotch Body named Lords of the Articles, without
whose origination, a