(Speech by Robespierre, May 10, 1793).

"Up to this time the art of governing has simply consisted in the art of stripping and subduing the masses for the benefit of the few, and legislation, the mode of reducing these outrages to a system."] [Footnote 2127: Buchez et Roux, XXXII., 353.

(Report by Robespierre to the Convention, May 7, 1794.) "Nature tells us that man is born for freedom while the experience of man for centuries shows him a slave.

His rights are written in his heart and history records his humiliation."] [Footnote 2128: Ibid., 372.

"Priests are to morality what charlatans are to medical practice.