If we should then go to the offices of the 114 notaries, we should again find two-thirds of these gentlemen in their caps and red slippers, also very much engaged.

We might then, again, go to the 200 or 300 printing establishments, where we should find 4,000 or 5,000 editors, compositors, clerks, and porters all conservatized because they no longer earn what they did before; and some because they have made a fortune."-- The incompatibility between modern life and direct democratic rule strikes one at every step, owing to modern life being carried out under other conditions than those which characterized life in ancient times.

For modern life these conditions are, the magnitude of States, the division of labor, the suppression of slavery and the requirements of personal comforts and prosperity.

Neither the Girondists nor the Montagnards, who aimed to revive Athenian and Spartan ways, comprehended the precisely opposite conditions on which Athens and Sparta flourished.] [Footnote 3377: Schmidt, I.207 (Dutard, May 10).] [Footnote 3378: Schmidt, II.

79 (Dutard, June 19).] [Footnote 3379: Schmidt, II.70 (Dutard, June 10).] [Footnote 3380: Lenin must have felt encouraged by reading these lines which can only have increase his disdain for the "capitalist" and bourgeoisie.