--Meillan, "Memoires," p.4. "His eloquence was nothing but
diffusive declamation without order or method, and especially with no
conclusions. Every time he spoke we were obliged to ask him what he was
driving at..... Never did he propose any remedy. He left the task of
finding expedients to others, and especially to Danton."]

[Footnote 3184: Buchez et Roux, XXXIII., 437, 438, 440, 442. (Speech by
Robespierre, Thermidor 8, year II.)]

[Footnote 3185: Ibid., XXX., 225, 226, 227, 228 (Speech, Nov. 17, 1793),
and XXXI., 255 (Speech, Jan.26, '794). "The policy of the London Cabinet
largely contributed to the first movement of our Revolution.... Taking
advantage of political tempests (the cabinet) aimed to effect in
exhausted and dismembered France a change of dynasty and to place the
Duke of York on the throne of Louis XVI.... Pitt....is an imbecile,
whatever may be said of a reputation that has been much too greatly
puffed up. A man who, abusing the influence acquired by him on an island
placed haphazard in the ocean, is desirous of contending with the French
people, could not have conceived of such an absurd plan elsewhere than
in a madhouse."--Cf. Ibid., XXX., 465.]

[Footnote 3186: Ibid., XXVI., 433, 441, (Speech on the Constitution,
May 10, 1793); XXXI., 275. "Goodness consists in the people preferring
itself to what is not itself; the magistrate, to be good, must sacrifice
himself to the people.".... "Let this maxim be first adopted that the
people are good and that its delegates are corruptible.".. . XXX.,
464. (Speech, Dec.25, 1793): "The virtues are the appanages of the
unfortunate and the patrimony of the people."]

[Footnote 3187: Cf. passim, Hamel, "Histoire de Robespierre," 3 vols. An
elaborate panegyric full of details. Although eighty years have elapsed,
Robespierre still makes dupes of people through his attitudes and
rhetorical flourishes. M. Hamel twice intimates his resemblance to Jesus
Christ. The resemblance, indeed, is that of Pascal's Jesuits to the
Jesus of the Gospel.]

[Footnote 3188: "The Ancient Regime," p.262.]

[Footnote 3189: Garat, "Memoires," 84. Garat who is himself an
ideologist, notes "his eternal twadle about the rights of man, the
sovereignty of the people, and other principles which he was always
talking about, and on which he never gave utterance to one precise or
fresh idea."]

[Footnote 3190: Read especially his speech on the constitution, (May 10,
1793), his report on the p