Hence the necessity for measures tending to unsettle the whole frame of society, and to take away every motive of industry; the abolition of debts, and the agrarian laws--propositions absurdly condemned by men who do not consider the circumstances from which they sprung.

They were the desperate remedies of a desperate disease.

In Greece the oligarchical interest was not in general so deeply rooted as at Rome.

The multitude, therefore, often redressed by force grievances which, at Rome, were commonly attacked under the forms of the constitution.

They drove out or massacred the rich, and divided their property.