the case that, when finally they had to act, they 
     transported into politics all the habits of literature.
     A study of the history of our Revolution shows that 
     it was conducted precisely in the same spirit, that has 
     caused so many abstract books to be written on 
     government—the same attraction for general theories, 
     complete systems of legislation, and exact symmetry in 
     the laws; the same contempt for existing facts; the same 
     confidence in theory, the same taste for the original, the 
     ingenious and the novel in institutions; the same desire to 
     rebuild at once the entire constitution according to the 
     rules of logic and a single plan, in the place of trying to 
     amend it in its parts.

     The mysterious “logic” mania of the French is easily 
recognizable as the visual component in isolation from other