Courage, and onward!
Citizens, whither are we going?
To science made government, to the force of things become the sole public force, to the natural law, having in itself its sanction and its penalty and promulgating itself by evidence, to a dawn of truth corresponding to a dawn of day.
We are advancing to the union of peoples; we are advancing to the unity of man. No more fictions; no more parasites.
The real governed by the true, that is the goal.
Civilization will hold its assizes at the summit of Europe, and, later on, at the centre of continents, in a grand parliament of the intelligence.
Something similar has already been seen.
The amphictyons had two sittings a year, one at Delphos the seat of the gods, the other at Thermopylae, the place of heroes.
Europe will have her amphictyons; the globe will have its amphictyons.
France bears this sublime future in her breast.
This is the gestation of the nineteenth century. That which Greece sketched out is worthy of being finished by France. Listen to me, you, Feuilly, valiant artisan, man of the people. I revere you.