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Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893

"The French Revolution - Volume 3"

(SR.)
[84] Buchez et Roux, XXXV., 272. ("Institutions," by Saint-Just.)
[85] These ideas were still powerful even before Taine wrote these
words in 1882. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations cites a
declaration made by 47 anarchists on trial after their uprising in
Lyons in 1870: "We wish, in a word, equality - equality in fact as
corollary, or rather, as primordial condition of liberty. From each
according to his faculties, to each according to his needs; that is
what we wish sincerely and energetically."
[86] Buchez et Roux, XXXI, 273, (Report by Robespierre, Pluvi?se17,
year II. (7 Feb. 1794).
[87] Moniteur, XIX (Rapport by Bar?re, Vent?se 21, an II). "You
should detect and combat federalism in all your institutions, as your
natural enemy....A grand central establishment for all the work of the
Republic is an effective means against federalism." - Buchez et Roux,
XXXI, 351, et XXXII, 316 (Rapports by Saint-Just, Vent?se 23 et
Germinal 26, year II). "Immorality is a federalism in the civil
state...Civil federalism, by isolating all parts of the state, has
dried up abundance."
[88] Decree of Germinal 26-29, year II. Financial companies are and
hereby remain suppressed.


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