in my presence."]

Marat: "Well, I did say so; that's my
opinion and I say it again."--

Up to the last he advocates surgical operations. (No. for July 12, 1793,
the eve of his death.) Observe what he says on the anti-revolutionaries.
"To prevent them from entering into any new military body I had proposed
at that time, as an indispensable prudent measure, cutting off their
ears, or rather their thumbs." He likewise had his imitators. (Buchez et
Roux, XXXII., 186, Session of the Convention, April 4, 1796.) Deputies
from the popular club of Cette "regret that they had not followed his
advice and cut off three hundred thousand heads."]

[Footnote 3143: Danton never wrote or printed a speech. "I am no
writer," he says. (Garat, Memoires, 31.)]

[Footnote 3144: Garat, "Memoires," III.: "Danton had given no serious
study to those philosophers who, for a century past, had detected the
principles of social art in human nature. He had not sought in his own
organization for the vast and simple combinations which a great empire
demands. He had that instinct for the grand which constitutes genius and
that silent circumspection which constitutes judgment."]

[Footnote 3145: Garat, ibid., 311, 312.]

[Footnote 3146: The head of a State may be considered in the same light
as the superintendent of an asylum for the sick, the demented and the
infirm. In the government of his asylum he undoubtedly does well to
consult the moralist and the physiologist; but, before following out
their instructions he must remember that in his asylum its inmates,
including the keepers and himself, are more or less ill, demented or
infirm.]

[Footnote 3147: De Sybel: "Histoire de l'Europe pendant la Revolution
Francaise," (Dosquet's translation from the German) II., 303. "It can
now be stated that it was the active operations of Danton and the first
committee of Public Safety which divided the coalition and gave the
Republic the power of opposing Europe... We shall soon see, on the
contrary, that the measures of the "Mountain" party, far from hastening
the armaments, hindered them."]

[Footnote 3148: Ibid., I., 558, 562, 585. (The intermediaries were
Westermann and Dumouriez.)]

[Footnote 3149: 2 Ibid., II., 28, 290, 291, 293.]

[Footnote 3150: Buchez et Roux, XXV., 445. (Session of April 13, 1793.)]

[Footnote 3151: According to a statement made by Count Theodore de
Lameth, the eldest of the four brothers Lameth and a colonel and al