I. 461.--Prudhomme, "Les Revolutions
de Paris," number for Sept. 22, 1792.]

[Footnote 31133: Moniteur, XIII. 711 (session of Sept. 16). Letter of
Roland to the National Assembly.--Buchez et Roux, XVIII. 42.--Moniteur,
XIII. 731 (session of Sept. 17). Speech by Petion: "Yesterday there
was some talk of again visiting the prisons, and particularly the
Conciergerie."]

[Footnote 31134: Perhaps Mao read this and later coined his famous
slogan "that all political power emanates from the barrels of guns."
(SR).]

[Footnote 31135: "Archives Nationales," II. 58 to 76. Official reports
of the Paris electoral assembly.--Robespierre is elected the twelfth
(Sept. 5), then Danton and Collot d'Herbois (Sept. 6) then Manuel and
Billaud-Varennes (Sept. 7), next C. Desmoulins (Sept. 8), Marat (Sept.
9) etc.--Mortimer-Ternaux, IV. 35 (act passed by the commune at
the instigation of Robespierre for the regulation of electoral
operations).--Louvet, "Memoires." Louvet, in the electoral assembly asks
to be heard on the candidacy of Marat, but is unsuccessful. "On going
out I was surrounded by those men with big clubs and sabers by whom
the future dictator was always attended, Robespierre's body-guard. They
threatened me and told me in very concise terms: 'Before long you
shall have your turn. This is the freedom of that assembly in which one
declared his vote under a dagger pointed at him."']

[Footnote 31136: In reading this all socialist and communists and other
potential manipulators of democracy would have taken and will continue
to take note. Once the hidden combination can manage to invest all the
different, in theory opponent, parties with their own men, an eternal
control by a hidden mafia can now take place. (SR).]

[Footnote 31137: Such procedures set a precedence for 200 years of
'guided democracy' in many trade unions and elsewhere. (SR).]

CHAPTER II. THE DEPARTMENTS.--THE EPEDEMIC AND CONTAGIOUS CHARACTER OF
THE REVOLUTIONARY DISEASE.

In the departments, it is by hundreds that we enumerate days like the
20th of June, August 10, September 2. The body has its epidemic, its
contagious diseases; the mind has the same; the revolutionary malady is
one of them. It appears throughout the country at the same time; each
infected point infects others. In each city, in each borough, the club
is a Center of inflammation which disorganizes the sound parts; and
the example of each disorganized Center spreads afar like contagio