we forbid any gift to persons whose income exceeds one thousand quintals of grain; 7.

we inaugurate adoption, "an admirable institution," and essentially republican, "since it brings about a division of large properties without a crisis." Already, in the Legislative Assembly a deputy had stated that "equal rights could be maintained only by a persistent tendency to uniformity of fortunes."[2160] We have provided for this for the present day and we likewise provide for it in the future .-- None of the vast tumors which have sucked the sap of the human plant are to remain; we have cut them away with a few telling blows, while the steady-moving machine, permanently erected by us, will shear off their last tendrils should they change to sprout again.
VI.

Conditions requisite for making a citizen.
Conditions requisite for making a citizen .-- Plans for suppressing poverty .-- Measures in favor of the poor.
In returning Man to his natural condition we have prepared for the advent of the Social Man.

The object now is to form the citizen, and this is possible only through a leveling of conditions.

In a well made society there shall be "neither rich nor poor"[2161]: we have already destroyed the opulence which corrupts; it now remains for us to suppress the poverty which degrades.