An achievement of truth!

And still that sigh for more!

But for the moment,--a few seconds only,--Paris looked round her
mighty self, and thought things over!

The man-eating tiger for the space of a sigh licked his powerful jaws
and pondered!

Something new!--something wonderful!

We have had a new Constitution, a new Justice, new Laws, a new
Almanack!

What next?

Why, obviously!--How comes it that great, intellectual, aesthetic
Paris never thought of such a wonderful thing before?

A new religion!

Christianity is old and obsolete, priests are aristocrats, wealthy
oppressors of the People, the Church but another form of wanton
tyranny.

Let us by all means have a new religion.

Already something has been done to destroy the old! To destroy!
always to destroy! Churches have been ransacked, altars spoliated,