nto
Eternity! (Compare Barrere (Chois des Rapports, xiv. 416-21); Lord Howe
(Annual Register of 1794, p. 86), &c.) Let foreign Despots think of
that. There is an Unconquerable in man, when he stands on his Rights of
Man: let Despots and Slaves and all people know this, and only them that
stand on the Wrongs of Man tremble to know it.

Chapter 3.5.VII.

Flame-Picture.

In this manner, mad-blazing with flame of all imaginable tints, from
the red of Tophet to the stellar-bright, blazes off this Consummation of
Sansculottism.

But the hundredth part of the things that were done, and the thousandth
part of the things that were projected and decreed to be done, would
tire the tongue of History. Statue of the Peuple Souverain, high as
Strasburg Steeple; which shall fling its shadow from the Pont Neuf over
Jardin National and Convention Hall;--enormous, in Painter David's
head! With other the like enormous Statues not a few: realised in paper
Decree. For, indeed, the Statue of Liberty herself is still but
Plaster in the Place de la Revolution! Then Equalisation of Weights
and Measures, with decimal division; Institutions, of Music and of much
else; Institute in general; School of Arts, School of Mars, Eleves de
la Patrie, Normal Schools: amid such Gun-boring, Altar-burning,
Saltpetre-digging, and miraculous improvements in Tannery!

What, for example, is this that Engineer Chappe is doing, in the Park of
Vincennes? In the Park of Vincennes; and onwards, they say, in the Park
of Lepelletier Saint-Fargeau the assassinated Deputy; and still onwards
to the Heights of Ecouen and further, he has scaffolding set up, has
posts driven in; wooden arms with elbow joints are jerking and fugling
in the air, in the most rapid mysterious manner! Citoyens ran up
suspicious. Yes, O Citoyens, we are signaling: it is a device this,
worthy of the Republic; a thing for what we will call Far-writing
without the aid of postbags; in Greek, it shall be named
Telegraph.--Telegraphe sacre! answers Citoyenism: For writing to
Traitors, to Austria?--and tears it down. Chappe had to escape, and
get a new Legislative Decree. Nevertheless he has accomplished it,
the indefatigable Chappe: this Far-writer, with its wooden arms and
elbow-joints, can intelligibly signal; and lines of them are set up, to
the North Frontiers and elsewhither. On an Autumn evening of the Year
Two, Far-writer having just written that Conde Town has surrendered to
us, we se