ll work
only to its own ruin.

*****

[Footnote 2101: Arthur Young, June 15, 1789.--Bailly, passim,--Moniteur,
IV. 522 (June 2, 1790).--Mercure de France (Feb. 11 1792).]

[Footnote 2102: Moniteur, v. 631 (Sep. 12, 1790), and September 8th
(what is said by the Abbe Maury).--Marmontel, book XIII. 237.--Malouet,
I. 261.--Bailly, I. 227.]

[Footnote 2103: Sir Samuel Romilly, "Memoires," I. 102, 354.--Dumont,
158. (The official rules bear are dated July 29, 1789.)]

[Footnote 2104: Cf. Ferrieres, I. 3. His repentance is affecting.]

[Footnote 2105: Letter from Morris to Washington, January 24, 1790 See
page 382, "A diary of the French revolution", Greenwood Press, Westport,
Conn. 1972.--Dumont 125--Garat, letter to Condorcet.]

[Footnote 2106: Arthur Young, I. 46. "Tame and elegant, uninteresting
and polite, the mingled mass of communicated ideas has power neither
to offend nor instruct..... All vigor of thought seems excluded from
expression..... Where there is much polish of character there is little
argument."--Cabinet des Estampes. See engravings of the day by Moreau,
Prieur, Monet, representing the opening of the States-General. All the
figures have a graceful, elegant, and genteel air.]

[Footnote 2107: Marmontel, book XIII. 237.--Malouet, I. 261.--Ferrieres,
I. 19.]

[Footnote 2108: Gouverneur Morris, January 24, 1790.--Likewise (De
Ferrieres, I.71) the decree on the abolition of nobility was not the
order of the day, and was carried by surprise.]

[Footnote 2109: Ferrieres, I. 189.--Dumont, 146.]

[Footnote 2110: Letter of Mirabeau to Sieyes, June 11, 1790. "Our nation
of monkeys with the throats of parrots."--Dumont, 146. "Sieyes and
Mirabeau always entertained a contemptible opinion of the Constituent
Assembly."]

[Footnote 2111: Moniteur, I, 256, 431 (July 16 and 31, 1789).--Journal
des Debats et Decrets, 105, July 16th "A member demands that M. de Lally
should put his speech in writing. The whole Assembly has repeated this
request."]

[Footnote 2112: Moniteur. (March 11, 1790). "A nun of St. Mande, brought
to the bar of the house, thanks the Assembly for the decree by which
the cloisters are opened, and denounces the tricks, intrigues, and
even violence exercised in the convents to prevent the execution of
the decree."--Ibid. March 29, 1790. See the various addresses which are
read. "At Lagnon, the mother of a family assembled her ten children,
and swore with them and for them to be loyal to