ld not be secured by pikes and bayonets, but through reason
and philosophy. These must maintain a watchful eye over society; these
must purify it and proscribe thieves and evil-doers. Each individual
must bring his small philosophic portion with him and, with these
small portions, compose a rational totality that will turn out to be of
benefit and to the welfare of all. Oh, for the time when functionaries
shall be rare, when the wicked shall be overthrown, when the law shall
become the sole functionary in society! Headquarters, etc. "--Every
morning, he preaches in the same pontifical strain. Imagine the
scene--Henriot's levee at head-quarters, and a writing table, with,
perhaps, a bottle of brandy on it; on one side of the table, the rascal
who, while buckling on his belt or drawing on his boots, softens his
husky voice, and, with his nervous twitchings, flounders through his
humanitarian homily; on the other side the mute, uneasy secretary, who
may probably be able to spell, but who dares not materially change the
grotesque phraseology of his master.

The Commune which employs the commanding-general is of about the same
alloy, for, in the municipal sword, the blade and hilt, forged together
in the Jacobin shop, are composed of the same base metal.--Fifty-six,
out of eighty-eight members, whose qualifications and occupations are
known, are decidedly illiterate, or nearly so, their education being
rudimentary, or none at all.[3347] Some of them are petty clerks,
counter-jumpers and common scribblers, one among them being a public
writer; others are small shopkeepers, pastry-cooks, mercers, hosiers,
fruit-sellers and wine-dealers; yet others are simple mechanics or
even laborers, carpenters, joiners, cabinet-makers, locksmiths,
and especially three tailors, four hair-dressers, two masons, two
shoemakers, one cobbler, one gardener; one stone-cutter, one paver,
one office-runner, and one domestic. Among the thirty-two who are
instructed, one alone has any reputation, Paris, professor at the
University and the assistant of Abbe Delille. Only one, Dumetz, an
old engineer, steady, moderate and attending to the supplies, seems a
competent and useful workman. The rest, collected from amongst the mass
of unknown demagogues, are six art-apprentices or bad painters, six
business-agents or ex-lawyers, seven second or third-rate merchants, one
teacher, one surgeon, one unfrocked married priest, all of whom, under
the political direc