of that bastard
Peynier is a fat one, and I'll stick it in my Pot!")]

[Footnote 2520: Letters of Coray, 126. "This pillaging has lasted three
days, Jan. 22, 23 and 24, and we expect from hour to hour similar riots
still more terrible."]

[Footnote 2521: Mercier (" Tableau de Paris") had already noticed before
the Revolution this habit of the Parisian workman, especially among the
lowest class of workmen.]

[Footnote 2522: Mortimer-Ternaux, 1.346 (letter of June 21, 1792).]

[Footnote 2523: Buchez et Roux, VIII. 25 (session of the National
Assembly, Nov.10, 1790). Petition presented by Danton in the name of the
forty-eight sections of Paris.]

[Footnote 2524: Buchez et Roux, XIV. 268 (May. 1792). Article by
Robespierre against the fete decreed in honor of Simonneau, Mayor of
Etampes, assassinated in a riot: "Simonneau was guilty before he became
a victim."]

[Footnote 2525: How can one forget that great seducer of the masses
Hitler? In his book "Hitler Speaks" page 208 Rauschning reports Hitler
as saying: "It is true that the masses are uncritical, but not in the
way these idiots of Marxists and reactionaries imagine. The masses have
their critical faculties, too, but they function differently from those
of the private individual. The masses are like an animal they obeys
instincts. They do not reach conclusions by reasoning. My success in
initiating the greatest people's movement of all time is due to my never
having done anything in violation of the vital laws and feelings of the
mass. These feelings may be primitive, but they have the resistance and
indestructibility of natural qualities. A once intensely felt experience
in the life of the masses, like ration cards and inflation, will never
again be driven out of their blood. The masses have a simple system
of thinking and feeling, and anything that cannot be fitted into
it disturbs them. It is only because I take their vital laws into
consideration that I can rule them."]

[Footnote 2526: Moniteur, XII. 254.--According to the royal almanac of
1792 the Paris national guard comprises 32,000 men, divided into
sixty battalions, to which must be added the battalions of pikemen,
spontaneously organized and composed, especially of the non-active
citizens.--Cf. in "Les Revolutions de Paris," Prudhomme's Journal, the
engravings which represent this sort of procession.]

[Footnote 2527: Buchez et Roux, XV. 122. Declaration of Lareynie, a
volunteer soldier in the Ile