rts of men to leap. Cracked or half-cracked is this tall Marquis's
head; uncracked are his lungs; the cracked and the uncracked shall alike
avail him.

Consider further that each of the Forty-eight Districts has its own
Committee; speaking and motioning continually; aiding in the search for
grain, in the search for a Constitution; checking and spurring the poor
Three Hundred of the Townhall. That Danton, with a 'voice reverberating
from the domes,' is President of the Cordeliers District; which has
already become a Goshen of Patriotism. That apart from the 'seventeen
thousand utterly necessitous, digging on Montmartre,' most of whom,
indeed, have got passes, and been dismissed into Space 'with four
shillings,'--there is a strike, or union, of Domestics out of place; who
assemble for public speaking: next, a strike of Tailors, for even they
will strike and speak; further, a strike of Journeymen Cordwainers; a
strike of Apothecaries: so dear is bread. (Histoire Parlementaire, ii.
359, 417, 423.) All these, having struck, must speak; generally under
the open canopy; and pass resolutions;--Lafayette and his Patrols
watching them suspiciously from the distance.

Unhappy mortals: such tugging and lugging, and throttling of one
another, to divide, in some not intolerable way, the joint Felicity of
man in this Earth; when the whole lot to be divided is such a 'feast of
shells!'--Diligent are the Three Hundred; none equals Scipio Americanus
in dealing with mobs. But surely all these things bode ill for the
consolidating of a Revolution.

BOOK VII.

THE INSURRECTION OF WOMEN

Chapter 1.7.I.

Patrollotism.

No, Friends, this Revolution is not of the consolidating kind. Do
not fires, fevers, sown seeds, chemical mixtures, men, events; all
embodiments of Force that work in this miraculous Complex of Forces,
named Universe,--go on growing, through their natural phases and
developments, each according to its kind; reach their height, reach
their visible decline; finally sink under, vanishing, and what we call
die? They all grow; there is nothing but what grows, and shoots forth
into its special expansion,--once give it leave to spring. Observe too
that each grows with a rapidity proportioned, in general, to the madness
and unhealthiness there is in it: slow regular growth, though this also
ends in death, is what we name health and sanity.

A Sansculottism, which has prostrated Bastilles, which has got pike
and muske