deed the wont has long been; for
it is a gesticulating, sympathetic People, and has a heart, and wears it
on its sleeve.

In which circumstances, it occurred to the mind of Anacharsis Clootz
that while so much was embodying itself into Club or Committee, and
perorating applauded, there yet remained a greater and greatest; of
which, if it also took body and perorated, what might not the effect be:
Humankind namely, le Genre Humain itself! In what rapt creative moment
the Thought rose in Anacharsis's soul; all his throes, while he went
about giving shape and birth to it; how he was sneered at by cold
worldlings; but did sneer again, being a man of polished sarcasm; and
moved to and fro persuasive in coffeehouse and soiree, and dived down
assiduous-obscure in the great deep of Paris, making his Thought a Fact:
of all this the spiritual biographies of that period say nothing. Enough
that on the 19th evening of June 1790, the Sun's slant rays lighted a
spectacle such as our foolish little Planet has not often had to show:
Anacharsis Clootz entering the august Salle de Manege, with the Human
Species at his heels. Swedes, Spaniards, Polacks; Turks, Chaldeans,
Greeks, dwellers in Mesopotamia: behold them all; they have come to
claim place in the grand Federation, having an undoubted interest in it.

"Our ambassador titles," said the fervid Clootz, "are not written
on parchment, but on the living hearts of all men." These whiskered
Polacks, long-flowing turbaned Ishmaelites, astrological Chaldeans,
who stand so mute here, let them plead with you, august Senators, more
eloquently than eloquence could. They are the mute representatives of
their tongue-tied, befettered, heavy-laden Nations; who from out of
that dark bewilderment gaze wistful, amazed, with half-incredulous hope,
towards you, and this your bright light of a French Federation: bright
particular day-star, the herald of universal day. We claim to stand
there, as mute monuments, pathetically adumbrative of much.--From bench
and gallery comes 'repeated applause;' for what august Senator but is
flattered even by the very shadow of Human Species depending on him?
From President Sieyes, who presides this remarkable fortnight, in spite
of his small voice, there comes eloquent though shrill reply. Anacharsis
and the 'Foreigners Committee' shall have place at the Federation; on
condition of telling their respective Peoples what they see there. In
the mean time, we invite them