3. To make still clearer the means by which the aim of the revolution is to be made generally known and the spirit of insurrection is to be aroused, Kropotkin tells some of the history of what preceded the Revolution of 1789. He tells how at that time thousands of lampoons acquainted the people with the vices of the court, and how a multitude of satirical songs flagellated crowned heads and stirred hatred against the nobility and clergy. He sets before us how in placards the king, the queen, the farmers-general, were threatened, reviled, and jeered at; how enemies of the people were hanged or burned or quartered in effigy. He describes to us the way in which the insurrectionists got the people used to the streets and taught them to defy the police, the military, the cavalry. We learn how in the villages secret organizations, the jacques, set fire to the barns of the lord of the manor, destroyed his crops or his game, murdered him himself, threatened the collection or payment of rent with death. He sets forth to us how then, one day, the storehouses were broken into, the trains of wagons were stopped on the highway, the toll-gates were burned and the officials killed, the tax-lists and the account-books and the city archives went up in flames, and the revolution broke out on all sides.[652] "What conclusions are to be drawn from this"[653] Kropotkin does not think it necessary to explain. He contents himself with characterizing as "a precious instruction for us"[654] the facts which he reports. FOOTNOTES: [431] Kr. "_Paroles_" p. 99. [432] _Ib._ p. 104. [433] Kr. "_Temps nouveaux_" p. 39. [434] _Ib._ p. 39. [435] _Ib._ pp. 8, 39. [436] _Ib._ p. 5. [437] Kr. "Anarchist Communism" p. 4. [438] Kr. "Studies" p. 9. [439] Kr. "Anarchist Communism" pp. 8-9. [440] _Ib._ p. 9. [441] Kr. "_Temps nouveaux_" p. 13. [442] _Ib._ p. 12. [443] _Ib._ p. 7. [444] Kr. "Anarchist Communism" p. 4. [445] Kr. "Studies" p. 24. [446] Kr. "Anarchist Communism" p. 7. [447] _Ib._ p. 4. [448] _Ib._ p. 7. [449] _Ib._ p. 4. [450] Kr. "_L'Anarchie dans l'evolution socialiste_" p. 28. [451] Kr. "_Paroles_" p. 17. [452] Kr. "_Temps nouveaux_" p. 59. [453] Kr. "Anarchist Communism" p. 4. [454] Kr. "_Paroles_" pp. 275-6. [455] _Ib._ pp. 277-8. [456] Kr. "_Paroles_" p. 17. [457] _Ib._ p. 275. [458] Kr. "Studies" p. 9. [459] _Ib._ p. 10. [460] Kr. "_Morale_" p. 74. [461] Kr. "Anarchist Communism" p. 4. [462] Kr. "_Morale_" pp. 24, 31. [463] _Ib._ p. 30. [464] Kr. "_Morale_" pp. 30-31. [465] _Ib._ p. 41. [466] _Ib._ p. 42. [467] _Ib._ p. 38; Kr. "_Conquete_" p. 296. [468] Kr. "_Paroles_" pp. 342, 129. [469] Kr. "_Morale_" p. 57. [470] _Ib._ pp. 61-2.