Chapter IX: The Jacobins in Power 208-235

The Constitution of '93.--Conflict between Jacobin theory
and Jacobin practice.--The Constitution suspended.--Intimidation
of the Convention.--Services of its Committees
to the cause of reform.--The Revolutionary Government in
Paris and in the provinces.--The Committee of Public
Safety.--Its members, its divisions and its heroic work.--The
Representatives on Mission.--Varied character of
their rule.--Their violence and excesses.--Principles of the
Terrorists.--Influence of the Parisian Commune.--Supremacy
of the State enforced in every relation of life.--The
State, in return for implicit obedience, undertakes to provide
for all its subjects.--Its methods of doing this.--Attempts
to fix prices.--The Maximum ruthlessly enforced.--Ruin
resulting from these arbitrary measures in industry
and trade.--General scarcity of food.--The State regulates
private conduct and family life.--Abolition of the Christian
faith and of the Christian era.--Moral results.--The idealists
of the Terror.--Its practical agents.--Hébert and his
party.--License and cruelty of many leading Terrorists.--General
worthlessness of their subordinates.--Blindness
and self-delusion of the best among them.--Entire failure
of the Terrorist ideal.