188 BAILLY. 
that his name must raise here. Judge, Gentlemen, 
weigh, my scruples: the furious persecutor of Bailly, of 
whom I have been talking to you for some minutes, was 
Marat. 
The revolution of ’89 just occurred in time to relieve 
the abortive author, physiologist, and physicist from the 
intolerable position into which he had been thrown by his 
inability and his quackery. 
As soon as the revolution had assumed a decided 
movement, great surprise was occasioned by the sudden 
transformations excited in the inferior walks of the polit- 
ical world. Marat was one of the most striking examples 
of these hasty changes of principles. The Neufchatel 
physician had shown himself a violent adversary to those 
opinions that occasioned the convocation of the assembly 
of Notables, and the national commotion in ’89. At that 
time democratical institutions had not a more bitter or 
more violent censor. Marat liked it to be believed that 
in quitting France for England, he fled especially from 
the spectacle of social renovation which was odious to 
“him. Yet a month after the taking of the Bastille, he 
returned to Paris, established a journal, and from its very 
beginning left far behind him, even those who, in the - 
hope of making themselves remarkable, thought they 
must push exaggeration to its very farthest limits. The 
former connection of Marat with M. de Calonne was 
perfectly well known; they remembered these words of 
Pitt’s: “The French must go through liberty, and then 
be brought back to their old government by licence ;” 
the avowed adversaries of revolution testified by their 
conduct, by their votes, and even by their imprudent 
words, that according to them, the worst was the only 
means of returning to what they call the good; and yet 
