Then began the so - called " rallying " movement, a
name which almost sounds as if borrowed from Amer-
ican politics. A strong section of the Monarchists " ral-
lied " to the Republic. The Catholics were helped on
by the Pope ; the Royalists by the absence of a leader,
and all by the conviction that the Republic was estab-
lished and that men who wished to serve their country



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or cared for a political future had no choice but to ac-
cept the Republic. Moreover, it was still to be deter-
mined -whether the Kepublic was to be conservative
and lasting, or Socialistic, and so go the way of other
experiments in anarchy, and the rallied Royalists were
of course conservative. They were ready to join hands
with the Opportunists or Moderates, the body of which
M. Carnot himself was in a sense the leader.
But to all this he was blind, or, if not blind, his prej-
udices were too inveterate to be overcome. He would
have nothing to say to the rallied. lie clung to con-
centration. He seemed really to believe that it was
not only possible but for the interest of the Kepublic
that it should be run by a party. He repelled the men
who were ready to support it. Nobody was more alive
than he was, as he showed again and again, to the dan-
gers of Radicalism ; of Socialistic Kadicalism above all.
