The things we do!

The old ones seem to it an obstacle, and, instead of
utilizing them, it breaks them one by one -- parliaments, provincial
states, religious orders, the church, the nobles, and royalty. The
new ones are suspicious, and instead of harmonizing them, it puts
them out of gear in advance -- the executive power, administrative
powers, judicial powers, the police, the gendarmerie, and the
army.[54] Thanks to these precautions it is impossible for any of
them to be turned against itself; but, also, thanks to these
precautions, none of them can perform their functions.[55]
In building, as well as in destroying, the Assembly had two bad
counselors, on the one hand fear, on the other hand theory; and on
the ruins of the old machine which it had demolished without
discernment, the new machine, which it has constructed without
forecast, will work only to its own ruin.
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Notes:
[1] Arthur Young, June 15, 1789. - Bailly, passim, -- Moniteur,
IV.


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