text:  He was "an uprooted tree " a stream whose course was swallowed up by an earthquake a wanderer in the wilderness of the world a man struck down by a thunderbolt! From those fearful fantasies however the emergency of public affairs soon summoned him to the exercise of his noble powers; and he gave his country and the world perhaps the most powerful certainly the most superb and imaginative of all his works the fiery pamphlets on the "regicide peace