We pay them forty sous a day for
attending district meetings; and three francs a day for serving on
committees of surveillance. We recruit from amongst them our
revolutionary army;[72] we select amongst them the innumerable
custodians of sequesters: in this way, hundreds of thousands of sans-
culottes enter into the various public services. - At last, the poor
are taken out of a state of poverty: each will now have his plot of
ground, his salary or pension;
"in a well-ordered republic nobody is without some property."[73]
Henceforth, among individuals, the difference in welfare will be
small; from the maximum to the minimum, there will be only a degree,
while there will be found in every dwelling about the same sort of
household, a plain, simple household, that of the small rural
proprietor, well-off farmer or factory foreman; that of Rousseau at
Montmorency, or that of the Savoyard Vicar, or that of Duplay, the
carpenter, with whom Robespierre lodges.[74] There will be no more
domestic servitude: "only the bond of help and gratitude will exists
between employer and employee."[75] - He who works for another citizen
belongs to his family and sits at his table.
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