The things we do!

"
[52] Poujoulat. "Histoire de la R?volution Fran?aise," p.100 (with
supporting documents). Proc?s-verbaux of the Provincial Assembly,
lle-de-France (1787), p.127.
[53] For instance: "He is severe with his peasants." -- "He gives
them no bread, and he wants them then to eat grass." "He wants them
to eat grass like horses."-- "He has said that they could very well
eat hay, and that they are no better than horses." -- The same story
is found in many of the contemporary jacqueries.
[54] Bailly, II. 108. "The people, less enlightened and as
imperious as despots, recognize no positive signs of good
administration but success."
[55] Bailly, II, 108, 95. - Malouet, II, 14.
[56] De Ferri?res, I. 168.


CHAPTER III.
I.
Anarchy from July 14th to October 6th, 1789. - Destruction of the
Government. - To whom does real power belong?
However bad a particular government may be, there is something still
worse, and that is the suppression of all government. For, it is
owing to government that human wills form a harmony instead of
chaos.


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