have made judicious selections in order to suit the purpose of showing the resemblance between this Memoir and the passage from Mirabeau's other writings which follows. But M. Barthou's impartiality cannot be impugned, for he appears to know nothing about the Illuminati or Mirabeau's connexion with them, and regards the Memoir in question as solely the outcome of Mirabeau's mind which had "ripened" since
- F. Barthou, Mirabeau, p. 57.
- In the Memoir drawn up by Mirabeau quoted above we find this passage: "It must be a fundamental rule never to allow any prince to enter the association were he a god for virtue."--Mémoires de Mirabeau, III. 60.
- Histoire de la Monarchie Prussienne, V. 99.
- Henry Martin, Histoire de France, XVI. 533.
- Louis Blanc,