. The days of the Directoire . ere invadersand supplanters of the original and legitimate inhabi-tants of the land. Similarly, the Fifth MonarchyMen in our own country, both before and after theRestoration, taught that England should be calledBritain, Saxons, Danes and Normans being all unjustusurpers of the rights of the aboriginal Britons.******The chief of the conspiracy, Gracchus Babeuf,had scarce any other title to authority beyond show-ing himself the most violent and most man of limited capacities, whose past was not freefrom reproach, yet sincere in his mental divagation
. The days of the Directoire . ere invadersand supplanters of the original and legitimate inhabi-tants of the land. Similarly, the Fifth MonarchyMen in our own country, both before and after theRestoration, taught that England should be calledBritain, Saxons, Danes and Normans being all unjustusurpers of the rights of the aboriginal Britons.******The chief of the conspiracy, Gracchus Babeuf,had scarce any other title to authority beyond show-ing himself the most violent and most man of limited capacities, whose past was not freefrom reproach, yet sincere in his mental divagationsand victim of his own consummate vanity, he lackedsolidity and common sense. He professed himself,and doubtless thought himself justified in so doing,the disciple of Robespierre and Saint-Just, whom hemust have very imperfectly studied ; the mistake ofreferring to them his communistic theories is sufficientproof of this. . In fact the whole affair abounds in , who invokes Robespierre, had once anathe-. FRANCOIS NOEL ( GK \> CHUS ) BABEUFFrom the Collection of H. II. Raphael, Esq., BABEUF AND BABOUVISME 253 matized him under the names of Emperor Maximilian,Maximilian the Cruel, and had noisily acclaimed hisdownfall. Again, how could the atheist SylvainMarechal, one of the apostles of the new sect, passfor a disciple of the man who had decreed the restora-tion of the Supreme Being?1 A crack-brained enthusiast, a wild, dangerous fanatic,a fierce revolutionary and reformer, savagely discon-tented with things as they are, and resolved at any cost tosee a new heaven and a new earth set up, at once anable schemer of sedition, and an impracticable visionaryand dreamer—such was Gracchus Babeuf. The childof a father, once prosperous under the ancien regime,but afterwards ruined and desperate, a sickly, stuntedboy, a domestic in the service of a nobleman, later anemploye of Government in a provincial town, earlybitten by the Revolutionary fever, then in Par
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