e replaces on
this earth?"--Speech by David, in the Convention, on Barra and
Viala: "Under so fine a government woman will bring forth without
pain."--Mercier "Le Nouveau Paris," I. 13. "I heard (an orator) exclaim
in one of the sections, to which I bear witness: 'Yes, I would take my
own head by the hair, cut it off, and, presenting it to the despot, I
would say to him: Tyrant, behold the act of a free man!'"]

[Footnote 1256: Now, one hundred years later, I consider the tens of
thousands of western intellectuals, who, in their old age, seem unable
to understand their longtime fascination with Lenin, Stalin and Mao,
I cannot help to think that history might be holding similar future
surprises in store for us. (SR).]

[Footnote 1257: And my lifetime, our Jacobins the communists, have
including in their register the distortion, the lie and slander as a
regular tool of their trade. (SR).]

[Footnote 1258: Lafayette, "Memoires," I.467 (on the Jacobins of
August 10, 1792). "This sect, the destruction of which was desired by
nineteen-twentieths of France."--Durand-Maillan, 49. The aversion to
the Jacobins after June 20, 1792, was general. "The communes of France,
everywhere wearied and dissatisfied with popular clubs, would gladly
have got rid of them, that they might no longer be under their
control."]

[Footnote 1259: The words of Leclerc, a deputy of the Lyons committee in
the Jacobin Club at Paris May 12, 1793. "Popular machiavelianism must be
established... Everything impure must disappear off the French soil...
I shall doubtless be regarded as a brigand, but there is one way to get
ahead of calumny, and that is to exterminate the calumniators."]

[Footnote 1260: Buchez et Roux, XXXIV. 204 (testimony of Francois
Lameyrie). "Collection of authentic documents for the History of the
Revolution at Strasbourg," II. 210 (speech by Baudot, Frimaire 19, year
II., in the Jacobin club at Strasbourg). "Egoists, the heedless, the
enemies of liberty, the enemies of all nature should not be regarded
as her children. Are not all who oppose the public good, or who do not
share it, in the same case? Let us, then, utterly destroy them... Were
they a million, would not one sacrifice the twenty-fourth part of
one's self to get rid of a gangrene which might infect the rest of the
body?..."For these reasons, the orator thinks that every man who is not
wholly devoted to the Republic must be put to death. He states that the
Republic shou