Let us follow our guides, men of principles, the pure, especially Couthon, Saint-Just and Robespierre; they are choice specimens, all cast in the true mold, and it is this unique and rigid mold in which all French men are to be recast.
***** ] [Footnote 2101: This and the following text are taken from the "Contrat-Social" by Rousseau.Cf.

"The ancient Regime," book III., ch..
IV.] [Footnote 2102: This idea, so universally prevalent and precocious, is uttered by Mirabeau in the session of the 10th of August, 1789.

(Buchez et Roux, II., 257.) "I know of but three ways of maintaining one's existence in society, and these are to be either a beggar, a robber or a hireling.

The proprietor is himself only the first of hirelings.

What we commonly call his property is nothing more than the pay society awards him for distributing amongst others that which is entrusted to him to distribute through his expenses and through what he consumes; proprietors are the agents, the stewards of the social body."] [Footnote 2103: Report by Roland, January 6, 1793, and by Cambon, February 1, 1793.] [Footnote 2104: Buchez et Roux, XXXI., 311.