First Movements During A Revolution

1 know the uien of the people in Paria too well nofc to know that their flrst movements in tiniea of revolution are nsüally generóos, and that they are best pleased to Bpend the days immediately following their triumph in boasting of their victory, layiug down the law and playing at being great men. During that time it geuerally happens that some governnient or other ia set up, the pólice returna to ita post and the jndgo to his bench, and wheu at last our great men consent to step downto the better known and more vulgar gronnd of petty and malicious human passiona they are no longer able to do so and are reduced to live siinply like honest men. Besides, we have spent so many years in insurrections that there have arisen among na a kind of inorality peculiar to timea of disorder and a special code for days of rebellion. According to these exceptional laws, rnurder is tolerated and havon permitted, but theft is strennously forbidden, although this, whatever oue tnay say, does not prevent a good deal of robbery from occurring upon those days for the simple reason that society in a state of rebellion cannot be different from that at any other time, and it will always contain a number of ráscala who, as far as they are concerned, scorn the morality of the main body and clespise its point of honor when