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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 



