.. that you will sacrifice your future, this career upon
which you have embarked?" It took her breath away.
"In the pass to which things have come there is no career for me
down there - at least no honest one. And I hope you do not think
that I could be dishonest. It is the day of the Dantons, and the
Marats, the day of the rabble. The reins of government will be
tossed to the populace, or else the populace, drunk with the conceit
with which the Dantons and the Marats have filled it, will seize
the reins by force. Chaos must follow, and a despotism of brutes
and apes, a government of the whole by its lowest parts. It cannot
endure, because unless a nation is ruled by its best elements it
must wither and decay."
"I thought you were a republican," said she.
"Why, so I am. I am talking like one. I desire a society which
selects its rulers, from the best elements of every class and denies
the right of any class or corporation to usurp the government to
itself - whether it be the nobles, the clergy, the bourgeoisie, or
the proletariat.
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