"Liberty is not the chicanery of a palace; it is rigidity towards evil."] [Footnote 3272: Barere, "Memoires," I.347.

"Saint-Just...

discussed like a vizier."] [Footnote 3273: Buchez et Roux, XXXII., 314.

"Are the lessons furnished by history, the examples afforded by all great men, lost to the universe?
These all counsel us to lead obscure lives; the lowly cot and virtue form the grandeurs of this world.

Let us seek our habitations on the banks of streams, rock the cradles of our children and educate them in Disinterestedness and Intrepidity."-- As to his political or economic capacity and general ideas, read his speeches and his "Institutions," (Buchez et Roux, XXVIII., 133; XXX., 305, XXXV., 369,) a mass of chemical and abstract rant.] [Footnote 3274: Carnot, I., 527.