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Prophet_151-200.indd 177 3/2/12 10:30 PM v The Aftermath l REPUBLICAN QUALMS The counter-revolutionary use of Hume's History ofthe Stuarts as a bible of unshakeable prophecies, complacently illustrating the irrationalism and ineradicable sins of human nature, the implacable "force of things," and the inevitable failure of all revolutions, continued with perhaps even greater intensity in the last five years of the century. Disheartening to some revolutionists too was the fact that political events as they progressed seemed to lend a new respectability to the fashionable science of historical analogies as more and more of the royalist predictions were, in appearance at least, fulfilled. On the whole, however, few republicans showed signs of discouragement . Although leaders of the Right flattered themselves with the hope of restoration and pointed again and again to the failure of the English republican experiment, those on the Left, now publishing parallels of their own, staunchly denied the validity of such royalist hopes. Much of this republican optimism seems to have been based on the belief that the established church, acknowledged as the throne's chief support, was now gone forever. Such, for example, is the opinion ofJean:Jacques Leuliette, writing in 1797: "... if I ...

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