He did not examine the obvious consequences of their economic status.

Had his eyes not been obscured by passion the work of that States-General the names in which appeared to him so astonishing in their inexperience, might have given him pause.

The "obscure provincial advocates ...

stewards of petty local jurisdictions ...

the fomenters and conductors of the petty war of village vexation" legislated, out of their inexperience, for the world.