[37] We will restrict the population to the
decadal cult only; we will change the market-days, so that no believer
shall be able to buy fish on a fast-day.[38] - We have nothing more at
heart than this war against Catholicism; no article on our program
will be carried out with more determination and perseverance. The
question involved is truth. We are its guardians, its champions, its
ministers, and never did the servants of truth apply force with such
minute detail and such effect to the extirpation of error.
V. Equality and Inequality.
Social inequality. - Malice of the aristocratic race. - Measures
against the King and Nobles. - Malice of the aristocracy of wealth.
- Measures against landowners, capitalists and people with incomes. -
Destruction of large fortunes. - Measures taken to prevent the large
fortunes in reconstituting themselves.
Next to superstition there is another monster to be destroyed, and,
also here it was the Constituent Assembly that had begun the assault.
But it had also, through lack of courage or of logic, it stopped,
after two or three feeble blows:
* Banning of heraldic insignia, titles of nobility and territorial
names;
* abolition, without indemnity, of all the dues belonging to the
seigneur by right of his former proprietorship over persons;
* abolition of the permission to purchase other feudal rights at a
price agreed upon,
* limitation of royal power.
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