The victor stops the mouth of the law when it is about
to speak in his adversary's behalf; and, under the legal iniquity of
an administration which he has himself established, he crushes those
whom the illegal force of his own strong hand has stricken down.
II.
Passion Supreme. - Dread of hunger its most acute form. - The
non-circulation of grain. - Intervention and usurpations of the
electoral assemblies. - The rural code in Nivernais. - The four
central provinces in 1790. - Why high prices are kept up. -
Anxiety and insecurity. - Stagnation of the grain market. -
The departments near Paris in 1791. - The supply and price of
grain regulated by force. - The mobs in 1792. - Village armies
of Eure and of the lower Seine and of Aisne. - Aggravation of the
disorder after August 10th. - The dictatorship of unbridled
instinct. - Its practical and political expedients.
Passions of this stamp are the product of human cultivation, and
break loose only within narrow bounds.
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