A Political History of Modern Europe From the Reformation to the Present Day
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What greatly contributed to the power of the multitude was the excitement and vague enthusiasm which possessed all classes alike. We must always remember, in order to under- stand the tremendous pace at which the Revolution devel- oped, that the year 1789 marks an almost unparalleled agita- tion of public opinion. A leading symptom of this condition were the innumerable pamphlets ,a^ newspapers which ac- companied the events of the day vv'sih explanatory comment, and not infrequently assumed t^...e.^foErfi-pf fanatical exhor- tation. But the most prominent andi^aique witi4ess of the disturbed state of opinion was offered '•b}'"t!!l€ clubs. Clubs for consultation and debate becalne the^^^'feat demand of the hour; they arose spontaneously iiy'all quarters; in fact, every coffee-house acquired, through^ the passri6n of its frequenters. Cordeliers and the character of a poUtical as^ciation. * Of all th'ese-unions the Jacobins and the Cordeliors'-sqo^ won^the most influen- tial position. The Cordeliers reomited' th^ numbers from among the Parisian " patriots "^^^rftitcfejijid Marat were among their leaders, and the tof^^ ihejpl^b was^'fr'J^hi the first, wildly revolutionary.
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