Ah, the good sense of the simpleminded! He, with all his reading, had never foreseen the danger of teaching these ignorant people in a few months what required a whole life of thought and study.

What happened to people stirred up by revolution was happening here on a small scale.

The most noble thoughts become corrupted passing through the sieve of vulgarity; the most generous aspirations are poisoned by the dregs of poverty.
He had sown the revolutionary seed in these outcasts of the Church, drowsing in the atmosphere of two centuries ago.

He had thought to help on the revolution of the future by forming men, but on awaking from his dreams he found only common criminals.

What a terrible mistake! His ideas had only tended to destruction.