Sounding like a modern-day actor, full of strident but incoherent views about how the world should work, he had the contradictory idea that the ‘people’ were just, but also that everything should be ruled by a select group of rational individuals such as himself. He called for action by the ‘people’, writing ‘You are many, they are few’. On another occasion he proposed an alliance of ‘enlightened, unprejudiced’ people to resist ‘the coalition of the enemies of liberty’. He would have loved Twitter.
