Year by year the Soldiers and Artisans began more vehemently to
assert -- and with increasing truth -- that there was no great
difference between them and the very highest class of Polygons, now
that they were raised to an equality with the latter, and enabled to
grapple with all the difficulties and solve all the problems of life,
whether Statical or Kinetical, by the simple process of Colour
Recognition. Not content with the natural neglect into which Sight
Recognition was falling, they began boldly to demand the legal
prohibition of all "monopolizing and aristocratic Arts" and the
consequent abolition of all endowments for the studies of Sight
Recognition, Mathematics, and Feeling. Soon, they began to insist
that inasmuch as Colour, which was a second Nature, had destroyed the
need of aristocratic distinctions, the Law should follow in the same
path, and that henceforth all individuals and all classes should be
recognized as absolutely equal and entitled to equal rights.
Finding the higher Orders wavering and undecided, the leaders of
the Revolution advanced still further in their requirements, and at
last demanded that all classes alike, the Priests and the Women not
excepted, should do homage to Colour by submitting to be painted.
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