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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