. Ninety-three . disaster could not fail to follow it. Let any one imag-inea tempest of peasants attacking Paris, a coalition of villages Itesiegingthe Pantheon, a troop of herdsmen flinging themselves upon a hostgoverned by the light of intellect. Le Mans and Havenay chastised thismadness. Tt was impossible for the Vendée to cross the Loire. Shecoidd do everything except that leap. Civil wai- does not concpier. To 2m WINETY-THREE. 257 pass the Rhine establishes a Cajsar aud streugthens a Napoleou ; to crossthe Loire killed La Rochejacquelein. The real strength of Vendée wasVendée at home ; th
. Ninety-three . disaster could not fail to follow it. Let any one imag-inea tempest of peasants attacking Paris, a coalition of villages Itesiegingthe Pantheon, a troop of herdsmen flinging themselves upon a hostgoverned by the light of intellect. Le Mans and Havenay chastised thismadness. Tt was impossible for the Vendée to cross the Loire. Shecoidd do everything except that leap. Civil wai- does not concpier. To 2m WINETY-THREE. 257 pass the Rhine establishes a Cajsar aud streugthens a Napoleou ; to crossthe Loire killed La Rochejacquelein. The real strength of Vendée wasVendée at home ; there she was invulueral ile, iiuconquerable. The Ven-dean at home was smuggler, laborer, soldier, shepherd, i)oacher, sharp-shooter, goatherd, bell-ringer, peasant, spy, assassin, sacristan, wild beastof the wood. La Rochejacqnelein is only Achilles ; Jean Chouan is Proteus. The rebellion of the Vendée failed. Other revolts have succeeded:that of Switzerland, for example. There is this différence between the. mountain insurgent like the Swiss aud the forest insurgent like the Ven-dcan, that almost always the one fights for an ideal, the other for a prej-udice. The one soars, the other crawls. The one combats for humanity,the other for solitude. The one desires liberty, the other wishes isola-tion. The one defends the commune, the other the parish. Com-munes ! Communes ! cried the heroes of Morat. The one has to dealwith precipices, the other with quagmires; the one is the man of torrentsand foaming streams, the other of stagnant jniddles, wliere pestilencelui-ks; the one has his head in the l)lue sky, the other in the thicket;the one is on a summit, the other in a shadow. The education of heights and shallows is very different. Themountain is a citadel; the forest is an ambuscade: the one inspiresaudacity, the other teaches trickery. Antiquity placed the gods on 258 KIKETY-THREE. heiglits and the satyrs in copses. Tlie satyr is the savage, half-man,hah-l)rute. Free countrie
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