ll step out of doors, and, from domestic, become a public
Club Life. Old Clubs, which already germinated, grow and flourish; new
every where bud forth. It is the sure symptom of Social Unrest: in such
way, most infallibly of all, does Social Unrest exhibit itself; find
solacement, and also nutriment. In every French head there hangs now,
whether for terror or for hope, some prophetic picture of a New France:
prophecy which brings, nay which almost is, its own fulfilment; and in
all ways, consciously and unconsciously, works towards that.

Observe, moreover, how the Aggregative Principle, let it be but deep
enough, goes on aggregating, and this even in a geometrical progression:
how when the whole world, in such a plastic time, is forming itself
into Clubs, some One Club, the strongest or luckiest, shall, by friendly
attracting, by victorious compelling, grow ever stronger, till it become
immeasurably strong; and all the others, with their strength, be either
lovingly absorbed into it, or hostilely abolished by it! This if the
Club-spirit is universal; if the time is plastic. Plastic enough is the
time, universal the Club-spirit: such an all absorbing, paramount One
Club cannot be wanting.

What a progress, since the first salient-point of the Breton Committee!
It worked long in secret, not languidly; it has come with the National
Assembly to Paris; calls itself Club; calls itself in imitation, as is
thought, of those generous Price-Stanhope English, French Revolution
Club; but soon, with more originality, Club of Friends of the
Constitution. Moreover it has leased, for itself, at a fair rent, the
Hall of the Jacobin's Convent, one of our 'superfluous edifices;' and
does therefrom now, in these spring months, begin shining out on an
admiring Paris. And so, by degrees, under the shorter popular title of
Jacobins' Club, it shall become memorable to all times and lands. Glance
into the interior: strongly yet modestly benched and seated; as many as
Thirteen Hundred chosen Patriots; Assembly Members not a few. Barnave,
the two Lameths are seen there; occasionally Mirabeau, perpetually
Robespierre; also the ferret-visage of Fouquier-Tinville with
other attorneys; Anacharsis of Prussian Scythia, and miscellaneous
Patriots,--though all is yet in the most perfectly clean-washed state;
decent, nay dignified. President on platform, President's bell are
not wanting; oratorical Tribune high-raised; nor strangers' galleries,
wherein