What is the Revolution? - Mgr. Gaume

The Revolution has been launched for four centuries. At that time, in fact, the Revolution, that is to say, the pagan theory of the absolute sovereignty of man, is formulated among the Christian nations. Part from above to go down, it presents us 3 distinct phases:


Inspired by the spirit of pagan antiquity, most Christian kings wanted to be Caesars; and history shows them pursuing for three centuries, as the last word of their policy, the weakening and the destruction of all power capable of counterbalancing their absolute power, or of hindering the exercise of it.

They wanted to become Popes, hence the systematic oppression of the Church, the spoliation of her property and the proclamation of maxims tending to devote their enfranchisement to her social authority.

At the end of the last century, the middle classes react with a frightful energy against monarchical paganism, overthrow it and confiscate it for their benefit. At the example of kings, the revolutionaries of '89 are Caesars, they become Popes. We see them, consequently, make a clean sweep of what remained of the religious and social state; and from the midst of the ruins they are heard to proclaim for their own benefit the absolute sovereignty of man over every given order.

The people, whose arms executed the revolution, the people, for whom it was said that it was made, and who was its victim; the people, in their turn, aspire to Caesarism and the Papacy , and, in a voice more and more terrible, he cries to the bourgeoisie: "Take care of that I put myself in it!" Thus, after being royal and bourgeois, the Revolution threatens to become popular.

"The grasshopper will eat the remains of the caterpillar, the worm, the remains of the grasshopper; the niello [disease], the remains of the worm, and nothing will be left. "(Joel, 1, 4).

Such will be, if God does not put his hand, the last phase of the Revolution.


Adapted from - Bishop Gaume - The Revolution (1875)