have read this between 1893 and 1962, date of the last English
reprinting of Taine's once widely know work. They summed up both
what had to be done and who would be the primary beneficiaries of the
revolution. Lenin, Hitler, Mussolini and countless other young hopeful
political men. Read it once more and ask yourself if much of this
program has not been more or less surreptitiously carried out in most
western countries after the second world war? (SR).]

[Footnote 26117: Malouet, II. 241.]

[Footnote 26118: Mercure de France, July 21, 1792.]

[Footnote 26119: "Revolutions de Paris," XIII. 137.]

[Footnote 26120: Mallet du Pan. "Memoires," I. 322. Letters to Mallet du
Pan. Aug. 4 and following days.]

[Footnote 26121: Buchez et Roux, XVI. 446. Petion's narrative.--Arnault,
"Souvenirs d'un sexagenaire," I. 342. (An eye-witness on the 10th of
August.) "The massacre extended but little beyond the Carrousel, and did
not cross the Seine. Everywhere else I found a population as quiet as if
nothing had happened. Inside the city the people scarcely manifested any
surprise; dancing went on in the public gardens. In the Marais, where I
lived then, there was only a suspicion of the occurrence, the same as at
Saint-Germain; it was said that something was going on in Paris, and the
evening newspaper was impatiently looked for to know what it was."]

[Footnote 26122: Moore, I. 122.--The same thing is observable at other
crises in the Revolution. On the 6th of October, 1789 (Sainte-Beuve,
"Causeries du Lundi," XII. 461), Senac de Meilhan at an evening
reception hears the following conversations: "'Did you see the king
pass?' asks one. 'No, I was at the theater.' 'Did Mole play?'--'As for
myself; I was obliged to stay in the Tuileries; there was no way of
getting out before 9 o'clock.' 'You saw the king pass then?' 'I could
not see very well; it was dark.'--Another says: 'It must have taken
six hours for him to come from Versailles.'--Others coolly add a few
details.--To continue: 'Will you take a hand at whist?' 'I will play
after supper, which is just ready.' Cannon are heard, and then a few
whisperings, and a transient moment of depression,. 'The king is leaving
the Hotel-de-ville. They must be very tired.' Supper is taken and there
are snatches of conversation. They play trente et quarante and while
walking about watching the game and their cards they do some talking:
'What a horrid affair!' while some speak together briefly an