To convince ourselves, we have but to cast our eyes upon thehandful of individuals who remain attached to our fathers'insensate worship: we will see whether they are not allirreconcilable enemies of the present system, we will see whetherit is not amongst their numbers that all of that justly contemnedcaste of royalists and aristocrats is included. Let the slave of acrowned brigand grovel, if he pleases, at the feet of a plasterimage; such an object is readymade for his soul of mud. He who canserve kings must adore gods; but we, Frenchmen, but we, my fellowcountrymen, we, rather than once more crawl beneath suchcontemptible traces, we would die a thousand times over rather thanabase ourselves anew! Since we believe a cult necessary, let usimitate the Romans: actions, passions, heroes—those
