The things we do!

- Popular insurrections and the laws of the
Constituent Assembly end in destroying all government in France;
this forms the subject of the present volume. - A party arises
around an extreme doctrine, grabs control of the government, and
rules in conformity with its doctrine. This will form the subject
of the second volume.
A third volume would be required to criticize and evaluate the
source material. I lack the necessary space: I merely state the
rule that I have observed. The trustworthiest testimony will always
be that of an eyewitness, especially
* When this witness is an honorable, attentive, and intelligent man,
* When he is writing on the spot, at the moment, and under the
dictate of the facts themselves,
* When it is obvious that his sole object is to preserve or furnish
information,
* When his work instead of a piece of polemics planned for the needs
of a cause, or a passage of eloquence arranged for popular effect is
a legal deposition, a secret report, a confidential dispatch, a
private letter, or a personal memento.


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