In order to abolish these it executed, tolerated, or initiated all the attacks on persons and on property.

Those it is about to commit are the inevitable result of those which it has already committed; for, through its Constitution, bad is changed to worse, and the social edifice, already half in ruins through the clumsy havoc that is effected in it, will fall in completely under the weight of the incongruous or extravagant constructions which it proceeds to extemporize.
***** [Footnote 2201: Cf.

"The Ancient Regime," books I.and V.] [Footnote 2202: Perhaps we are here at the core of why all regimes end up becoming corrupt, inefficient and sick; their leaders take their privileges for granted and become more and more inattentive to the work which must be done if the people are to be kept at work and possible adversaries kept under control.

(SR.)] [Footnote 2203: A special tax paid the king by a plebeian owning a fief.
(TR)] [Footnote 2204: The right to an income from trust funds.

(SR.)] [Footnote 2205: Arthur Young, I.209, 223.