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imitated throughout the nation, in such

places where the inhabitants desired to show

themselves equal to all the heights of the

Revolution.”—Scott, vol. 1, ch. 17.

Said the orator who introduced the worship

of Reason: “Legislators! Fanaticism has given

way to reason. Its bleared eyes could not

endure the brilliancy of the light. This day an

immense concourse has assembled beneath

those gothic vaults, which, for the first time,

re-echoed the truth. There the French have

celebrated the only true worship,—that of

Liberty, that of Reason. There we have

formed wishes for the prosperity of the arms

of the Republic. There we have abandoned

inanimate idols for Reason, for that animated

image, the masterpiece of nature.”—M. A.

Thiers, History of the French Revolution, vol.

2, pp. 370, 371.