and direct democratic
rule strikes one at every step, owing to modern life being carried out
under other conditions than those which characterized life in ancient
times. For modern life these conditions are, the magnitude of States,
the division of labor, the suppression of slavery and the requirements
of personal comforts and prosperity. Neither the Girondists nor the
Montagnards, who aimed to revive Athenian and Spartan ways, comprehended
the precisely opposite conditions on which Athens and Sparta
flourished.]

[Footnote 3377: Schmidt, I. 207 (Dutard, May 10).]

[Footnote 3378: Schmidt, II. 79 (Dutard, June 19).]

[Footnote 3379: Schmidt, II.70 (Dutard, June 10).]

[Footnote 3380: Lenin must have felt encouraged by reading these lines
which can only have increase his disdain for the "capitalist" and
bourgeoisie. (SR).]

[Footnote 3381: Mortimer-Ternaux, V. 101.]

[Footnote 3382: Meillan, 54.--Raffet, Henriot's competitor and denounced
as an aristocrat, had at first the most votes, 4,953 against 4,578. At
the last ballot, out of about 15,000 he still has 5,900 against 9,087
for Henriot.--Mortimer-Ternaux, VIII. 31: "The electors had to vote
thirty at a time. All who dared give their votes to Raffet were
marked with a red cross on the roll-call, followed by the epithet of
anti-revolutionary."]

[Footnote 3383: Schmidt, II. 37 (Dutard, June 13): "Marat and others
have a party of from 4,000 to 6,000 men, who would do anything to
rescue them."--Meillan, 155 (depositions taken by the Commission of
the Twelve): Laforet has stated that there were 6,000 sans-culottes to
massacre objectionable deputies at the first signal.--Schmidt, II, 87
(Dutard, June 24): "I know that there are not in all Paris 3,000 decided
revolutionaries."]

[Footnote 3384: Moniteur, XV. 114, session of Jan. 11, speech by
Buzot.--Ibid., 136, session of Jan. 13, speech of the Federates of
Finisterre.--Buchez et Roux, XXVIII. 80, 81, 87, 91, 93 (Letter of
Gadolle to Roland, October 1792).--Schmidt, I. 207 (Dutard, May 10,
1793).]

[Footnote 3385: Schmidt, II. 37 (Dutard, May 10, 1793).]

[Footnote 3386: Mortimer-Ternaux, IV. 269 (petition presented by
Gonchon.)--"Archives Nationales," AF, II 43. Letters of Gonchon to the
Minister Garat, (May 31, June 1, June 3, 1793). These are very odd and
naive. He addresses the Minister Garat: "Citizen Garra."]

[Footnote 3387: Schmidt, I, 254 (Dutard, May 19).--Moniteur, XIV. 522
(Letter addressed to Rol