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039 - Book 6 Chapter 5 The Fourth Estate · The French Revolution Volume 1 - The Bastille

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  Speaker 1: The French Revolution, A History by Thomas Carlyle, Volume one,
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  Speaker 1: Book six, Consolidation, Chapter five, the Fourth of State. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Read by Peter
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  Speaker 1: Dan Book six, Chapter five, The Fourth Estate. Pamphleteering opens
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  Speaker 1: its abysmal throat wider and wider, never to close more.
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  Speaker 1: Our philosophs indeed, rather withdraw after the manner of Marmontelle,
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  Speaker 1: retiring in disgust the first day Abbe Ray, now grown
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  Speaker 1: gray and quiet in his Marseilles, do mesil is little
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  Speaker 1: content with this work. The last literary act of the
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  Speaker 1: man will again be an act of rebellion, an indignant
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  Speaker 1: letter to the constituent Assembly, answered by the order of
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  Speaker 1: the day. Thus, also philosoph Morelais Puckers discontented Brows, being
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  Speaker 1: indeed threatened in his benefices by that fourth of August,
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  Speaker 1: it is clearly going too far. How astonishing that those
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  Speaker 1: haggard figures in Woolen Dupes would not rest as satisfied
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  Speaker 1: with speculation and victorious analysis as we ah Yes, speculation philosophism,
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  Speaker 1: once the ornament and wealth of the saloon, will now
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  Speaker 1: coin itself into mere practical propositions and circulate on street
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  Speaker 1: and highway universally, with results. A fourth estate of able
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  Speaker 1: editors springs up, increases and multiplies, irrepressible, incalculable, new printers,
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  Speaker 1: new journals, and ever knew so prurient as the world.
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  Speaker 1: Let our three hundred curb and consolidate as they can
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  Speaker 1: lust a lot under the wing of prudam dull, blustering
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  Speaker 1: printer edits weekly his revolution de Paris in an acrid,
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  Speaker 1: emphatic manner, acrid corrosive as the spirit of sloes and
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  Speaker 1: COPPERA is mahrat friend of the people. Struck already with
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  Speaker 1: the fact that the National Assembly, so full of aristocrats,
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  Speaker 1: can do nothing except dissolve itself and make way for
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  Speaker 1: a better that the town hall representatives are little other
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  Speaker 1: than babblers and imbeciles. If not even knaves poor is
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  Speaker 1: this man squalid and dwells in garrets, A man unlovely
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  Speaker 1: to the sense outward and inward, A man forbid and
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  Speaker 1: is becoming fanatical, possessed with fixed idea cruel lusus of nature?
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  Speaker 1: Did nature o poor marah as in cruel sport need
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  Speaker 1: thee out of her leavings and miscellaneous waste, clay and
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  Speaker 1: fling thee forth step Dame, like a distraction into this
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  Speaker 1: distracted eighteenth century work, is appointed thee there which thou
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  Speaker 1: shalt do. The three hundred have summoned, and will again
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  Speaker 1: summon Marad. But always he croaks forth answer sufficient. Always
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  Speaker 1: he will defy them or elude them, and endure no
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  Speaker 1: gag caara ex secretary of the decapitated Hospada, and then
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  Speaker 1: of a necklace cardinal. Likewise, pamphleteer, adventurer in many scenes
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  Speaker 1: and lands, draws nigh to Messier of the Tableau de Paris,
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  Speaker 1: and with foam on his lips, proposes an annal patriotique.
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  Speaker 1: The monitor goes its prosperous way. Barrea weeps on paper,
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  Speaker 1: as yet, loyal riverol Or you are not idle. Deep
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  Speaker 1: calls to Deep your domine Salvon Fakaragam shall awaken pange
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  Speaker 1: Lingua with an ami du purplar. There is a King's
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  Speaker 1: friend newspaper Amidi Camille de Moulain has appointed himself Procureur
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  Speaker 1: general de la Lantern, Attorney General of the Lampion, and
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  Speaker 1: pleads not with atrocity under an atrocious title, editing weekly
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  Speaker 1: his brilliant revolutions of Paris and brabon brilliant. We say,
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  Speaker 1: for if in that thick murk of journalism, with its
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  Speaker 1: dull blustering, with its fire or loose fury, any ray
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  Speaker 1: of genius greet thee, be sure it is Comelleye's the
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  Speaker 1: thing that camea teaches us. He with his light finger
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  Speaker 1: adorns brightness, plays gentle, unexpected amid horrible confusions. Often is
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  Speaker 1: the word of Camilla worth reading when no others is questionable. Cama,
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  Speaker 1: how thou glitterist with a fallen, rebellious yet still semi
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  Speaker 1: celestial light, as is the starlight on the brow of
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  Speaker 1: Lucifer sun of the morning. Into what times and what
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  Speaker 1: lands art thou fallen? But in all things is good,
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  Speaker 1: though not good for consolidating revolutions. Thousand wagon loads of
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  Speaker 1: this pamphtereering and newspaper matter lie rotting slowly in the
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  Speaker 1: public libraries of our Europe, snatched from the great Gulf
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  Speaker 1: like oysters by bibliomaniac pearl divers. There must they first rot.
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  Speaker 1: Then what was pearl in Camlle or others may be
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  Speaker 1: seen as such and continue as Nor has public speaking declined.
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  Speaker 1: Though Lafayette and his patrols look sour on it loud
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  Speaker 1: always is the palais royal loudest the cafe de foix,
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  Speaker 1: such a mascellany of citizens and citizenessa's circulating there now
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  Speaker 1: and then, According to Camille, some citizens employ the liberty
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  Speaker 1: of the press for a private purpose, so that this
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  Speaker 1: or the other patriot finds himself short of his watch
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  Speaker 1: or pocket handkerchief. But for the rest, in Camille's opinion,
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  Speaker 1: nothing can be a livelier image of the Roman forum.
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  Speaker 1: A patriot proposes his motion, If it finds any supporters,
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  Speaker 1: they make him mount on a chair and speak. If
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  Speaker 1: he is applauded, he prospers and redacts. If he has hissed,
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  Speaker 1: he goes his ways. Thus they circulating and perorating. Tall
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  Speaker 1: shaggy Marquis sainct de rouge, a man that has had
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  Speaker 1: his losses and has deserved them, is seen eminent and
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  Speaker 1: also heard bellowing. Is the character of his voice, like
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  Speaker 1: that of a bull of bashan voice which drownds all voices,
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  Speaker 1: which causes frequently the hearts of men to leap. Cracked
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  Speaker 1: or half cracked. Is this tall Marquis's head uncracked? Are
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  Speaker 1: his lungs? The cracked and the uncracked shall alike avail him.
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  Speaker 1: Consider Father, that each of the forty eight districts has
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  Speaker 1: his own committee, speaking and motioning, continually aiding in the
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  Speaker 1: search for grain, in the search for a constitution, checking
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  Speaker 1: and spurring the poor three hundred of the town hall.
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  Speaker 1: That Danton, with a voice reverberating from the domes, is
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  Speaker 1: president of the Cordeliers District, which has already become a
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  Speaker 1: goshen of patriotism. That apart from the seventeen thousand utterly
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  Speaker 1: necessities digging on Montmartre, most of whom indeed have got
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  Speaker 1: passes and been dismissed into space with four shillings. There
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  Speaker 1: is a strike or union of domestics out of place,
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  Speaker 1: who assemble for public speaking. Next, a strike of tailors,
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  Speaker 1: for even they will strike again. Speak further, a strike
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  Speaker 1: of journeyman cordwainers, a strike of apothecaries. So dear as bred.
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  Speaker 1: All these, having struck, must speak generally under the open
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  Speaker 1: canopy and pass resolutions. Lafayette and his patrols watching them
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  Speaker 1: suspiciously from the distance. Unhappy mortals such tugging and lugging
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  Speaker 1: and throttling of one another to divide in some not
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  Speaker 1: intolerable way. The joint felicity of man in this earth,
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  Speaker 1: when the whole lot to be divided, is such a
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  Speaker 1: feast of shells, diligent of the three hundred, none equal
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  Speaker 1: Scipio americanas in dealing with mobs. But surely all these
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  Speaker 1: things bode ill for the consolidating of a revolution. End
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  Speaker 1: of Book six, Chapter five,