eself; one changed one's name, one went in
disguise, wearing a vulgar and tasteless attire; everybody shrunk from
being what he was."

For, according to the Jacobin program, all Frenchmen must be
recast[41147] in one uniform mold; they must be taken when small; all
must be subject to the same enforced education, that of a mechanic,
rustic and soldier's boy. Be warned, ye adults, by the guillotine,
reform yourselves beforehand according to the prescribed pattern!
No more costly, elegant or delicate crystal or gold vases! All are
shattered or are still being shattered. Henceforth, only common ware is
to be tolerated or ordered to be made, all alike in substance, shape and
color, manufactured by thousands at wholesale and in public factories,
for the common and plain uses of rural and military life; all original
and superior forms are to be rejected.

"The masters of the day," writes Daunou,[41148] "deliberately aimed
their sword thrusts at superior talent, at energetic characters; they
mowed down as well as they could in so short a time, the flower and hope
of the nation."

In this respect they were consistent; equality-socialism[41149] allows
none but automatic citizens, mere tools in the hands of the State, all
alike, of a rudimentary fashion and easily managed, without personal
conscience, spontaneity, curiosity or integrity; whoever has cultivated
himself, whoever has thought for himself and exercised his own will
and judgment rises above the level and shakes off the yoke; to obtain
consideration, to be intelligent and honorable, to belong to the
elite, is to be anti-revolutionary. In the popular club of
Bourg-en-Bresse,[41150] Representative Javogues declared that,

"the Republic could be established only on the corpse of the last of the
respectable men."

X. The Governors and the Governed.

Prisoners in the rue de Sevres and the "Croix-Rouge"
revolutionary committee.--The young Dauphin and Simon his
preceptor.--Judges, and those under their jurisdiction.
--Trenchard and Coffinhal, Lavoisier and Andre Chenier.

Here we have, on one side, the elite of France, almost every person
of rank, fortune, family, and merit, those eminent for intelligence,
culture, talent and virtue, all deprived of common rights, in exile, in
prison, under pikes, and on the scaffold. On the other side, those above
common law, possessing every office and omnipotent in the irresponsible
dictatorship, in the des