re lies all his invention, a systematic
robbery on a grand scale within and without the kingdom.

As to the legislators and manufacturers of constitutions, we have
Condorcet, a cold-blooded fanatic and systematic leveler, satisfied that
a mathematical method suits the social sciences fed on abstractions,
blinded by formuloe, and the most chimerical of perverted intellects.
Never was a man versed in books more ignorant of mankind; never did a
lover of scientific precision better succeed in changing the character
of facts. It was he who, two days before the 20th of June, amidst the
most brutal public excitement, admired "the calmness" and rationality of
the multitude; "considering the way people interpret events, it might
be supposed that they had given some hours of each day to the study of
analysis." It is he who, two days after the 20th of June, extolled the
red cap in which the head of Louis XVI. had been muffled. "That crown
is as good as any other. Marcus Aurelius would not have despised
it."[2208]--Such is the discernment and practical judgment of the
leaders; from these one can form an opinion of the flock. It consists
of novices arriving from the provinces and bringing with them the
principles and prejudices of the newspaper. So remote from the center,
having no knowledge of general affairs or of their unity, they are
two years behind their brethren of the Constituent Assembly. They are
described in the following manner by Malouet,[2209]

"Most of them, without having decided against a monarchy, had decided
against the court, the aristocracy, and the clergy, ever imagining
conspiracies and believing that defense consisted solely in attack.
There were still many men of talent among them, but with no experience;
they even lacked that which we had obtained. Our patriot deputies, in
great part, were aware of their errors; the novices were not, they were
ready to begin all over again."

Moreover, they have their own political bent, for nearly all of them
are upstarts of the new regime. We find in their ranks 264 department
administrators, 109 district administrators, 125 justices and
prosecuting-attorneys, 68 mayors and town officers, besides about twenty
officers of the National Guard, constitutional bishops and cures. The
whole amounting to 566 of the elected functionaries, who, for the past
twenty months, have carried on the government under the direction
of their electors. We have seen how this was done and unde