the French Revolution by this monster and the Montagnards of the Convention were in their eyes, in accordance with their moral system, heroic actions ennobled and sanctified by their aim." The same document goes on to explain why so many combustible elements had failed to produce an explosion in Germany:
The thing that seemed the great obstacle to the plans of the Independents... was what they called the servile character and the dog-like fidelity [*Hundestreue*] of the German people, that is to say, that attachment--innate and firmly impressed on their minds without even the aid of reason--which that excellent people everywhere bears towards its princes.
A traveller in Germany during the year 1795 admirably summed up the matter in