The French Revolution : a history . mmittee, and perorating applauded,there yet remained a greater and greatest; of which, ifif also took body and perorated, what might not theeffect be: Humankind namely, ie Genre Humain itself!In what rapt creative moment the Thought rose inAnacharsiss soul; all his throes, while he went aboutgiving shape and birth to it; how he was sneered at bycold worldlings; but did sneer again, being a man ofpolished sarcasm ; and moved to and fro persuasive incoffeehouse and soiree, and dived down assiduous-obscurein the great deep of Paris, making his Thought a Fact:of
The French Revolution : a history . mmittee, and perorating applauded,there yet remained a greater and greatest; of which, ifif also took body and perorated, what might not theeffect be: Humankind namely, ie Genre Humain itself!In what rapt creative moment the Thought rose inAnacharsiss soul; all his throes, while he went aboutgiving shape and birth to it; how he was sneered at bycold worldlings; but did sneer again, being a man ofpolished sarcasm ; and moved to and fro persuasive incoffeehouse and soiree, and dived down assiduous-obscurein the great deep of Paris, making his Thought a Fact:of all this the spiritual biographies of that period say [The leaving out of the Bastille heroes is regarded by ( Hist, politique de la R^v. Fr., p. 84) as a sign of Lafay-ettes influence and of the general fear of the populace. TheNational Guard was, in Paris, entirely composed of active citizens(?>., taxpayers) and was essentially a bourgeois force up to theclose of 1791.— See Deux Amis, v. 122 ; Hist. Pari., From Ialiieaiix hiatoriques. p. 64 JUNE 19, 1790] MANKIND 65 nothing. Enough that on the 19th evening of June 1790,the suns slant rays lighted a spectacle such as our foolishlittle Planet has not often had to show : AnacharsisClootz entering the august Salle de Manage, with theHuman Species at his heels, Swedes, Spaniards, Polacks;Turks, Chaldeans, Greeks, dwellers in Mesopotamia;behold them all; they have come to claim place in thegrand Federation, having an undoubted interest in it.^ Our Ambassador titles, said the fervid Clootz, arenot written on parchment, but on the living hearts of allmen. These whiskered Polacks, long-flowing turbanedIshmaelites, astrological Chaldeans, who stand so mutehere, let them plead with you, august Senators, moreeloquently than eloquence could. They are the muterepresentatives of their tongue-tied, befettered, heavy-laden Nations ; who from out of that dark bewildermentgaze wistful, amazed, with half-incredulous hope
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