taking the object into a consideration?
Then note the infamy of Brutus, Marcel, Arnould von Blankenheim, Coligny, Hedgerow war?
War of the streets? Why not?
That was the war of Ambiorix, of Artevelde, of Marnix, of Pelagius.
But Ambiorix fought against Rome, Artevelde against France, Marnix against Spain, Pelagius against the Moors; all against the foreigner.
Well, the monarchy is a foreigner; oppression is a stranger; the right divine is a stranger.
Despotism violates the moral frontier, an invasion violates the geographical frontier. Driving out the tyrant or driving out the English, in both cases, regaining possession of one''s own territory.
There comes an hour when protestation no longer suffices; after philosophy, action is required; live force finishes what the idea has sketched out; Prometheus chained begins, Arostogeiton ends; the encyclopedia enlightens souls, the 10th of August electrifies them.
After AEschylus, Thrasybulus; after Diderot, Danton.
Multitudes have a tendency to accept the master. Their mass bears witness to apathy.
A crowd is easily led as a whole to obedience.
Men must be stirred up, pushed on, treated roughly by the very benefit of their deliverance, their eyes must be wounded by the true, light must be hurled at them in terrible handfuls. They must be a little thunderstruck themselves at their own well-being; this dazzling awakens them.