Mediaeval and modern history . gnize the existence of the Su-preme Being and the immortality of thesoul; (2) they recognize that the worshipmost worthy of the Supreme Being isthe practice of the duties of man; and(3) they put in the first rank of theseduties to detest bad faith and tyranny, topunish tyrants and traitors, to rescue theunfortunate, to defend the oppressed, to do to others all the goodone can, and to be unjust towards none. ^^ The Convention adopted the resolution with the utmostenthusiasm. The Jacobins appeared by a committee before theAssembly and thanked them for the grand dec
Mediaeval and modern history . gnize the existence of the Su-preme Being and the immortality of thesoul; (2) they recognize that the worshipmost worthy of the Supreme Being isthe practice of the duties of man; and(3) they put in the first rank of theseduties to detest bad faith and tyranny, topunish tyrants and traitors, to rescue theunfortunate, to defend the oppressed, to do to others all the goodone can, and to be unjust towards none. ^^ The Convention adopted the resolution with the utmostenthusiasm. The Jacobins appeared by a committee before theAssembly and thanked them for the grand decree. Similar con-gratulations came from all parts of France. The churches whichhad been converted into temples of the Goddess of Reason werenow consecrated to the new worship of the Supreme Being. 596. The Culmination of the Terror at Paris (June and July,1794). — At the same time that Robespierre was instituting the 23 Stephens, T/ie Principal Speeches of the Statesffien and Orators of the FrenchRevolution, vol. ii, p. Fig. 92. — Robespierre(From a French print) THE TERROR AT PARIS 533 new worship, the Great Committee of Public Safety, of whichhe was generally regarded as the controlling spirit, was rulingFrance by a terrorism unparalleled since the most frightful daysat Rome. The Revolutionary Tribunal had been entirely unham-pered in its modes of procedure, and moral conviction on thepart of the judges of the guilt of a person was all that was neces-sary upon which to ground a verdict of death. The Convention,affrighted by the monster it had itself brought forth, was coweringbefore it. With all power thus gathered in its hands, the Committee pro-ceeded to overawe all opposition and dissent by the wholesaleslaughters of the guillotine. The prisons of Paris and of thedepartments were filled with suspected persons, until two hundredthousand prisoners were crowded into these republican Paris the dungeons were emptied of their victims and roommade for fresh
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