5, 1793) "Brissot, like all noisy, reckless, ambitious men, started in full blast with the strangest paradoxes.

In 1780.

in his 'Recherches philosophiques sur le droit de propriete,' he wrote as follows: 'If 40 crowns suffice to maintain existence, the possession of 200,000 crowns is plainly unjust and a robbery...

Exclusive ownership is a veritable crime against nature...
The punishment of robbery in our institutions is an act of virtue which nature herself commands.'"] [Footnote 2206: Moniteur, speech by Cambon, sittings of Feb.

2 and April 20, 1792.] [Footnote 2207: Ibid., (sitting of April 3).