" (Report by Cambac?r?s on the Code
civil, August 9, 1793). The spokesman for the committee that had
framed the bill makes excuses for not having deprived the father of
all the disposable portion. "The committee believed that such a
clause would seriously violate our customs without being of any
benefit to society or of any moral advantage. We assured ourselves,
moreover, that there should always be a division of property." With
respect to donations: "It is repugnant to all ideas of beneficence to
allow donations to the rich. Nature is averse to the making of such
gifts so long as our eyes dwell on misery and misfortune. These
affecting considerations have determined us to fix a point, a sort of
maximum, which prohibits gifts on the part of those who have reached
that point."
[60] Moniteur, XII., 730, (June 22, 1792), speech by Lamarque. - But
this principle is encountered everywhere. "Equality, indeed, (is) the
final aim of social art." (Condorcet, 'Tableau des progr?s de l'esprit
humain," II., 59. - "We desired," writes Baudot, "to apply to
politics the equality which the Gospel awards to Christians." (Quinet,
"Revolution Fran?aise, II., 407.
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