[The Origins of Contemporary France Volume 4 (of 6) by Hippolyte A. Taine]@TWC D-Link bookThe Origins of Contemporary France Volume 4 (of 6) CHAPTER I 76/88
("Institutions," by Saint-Just.)] [Footnote 2185: These ideas were still powerful even before Taine wrote these words in 1882.
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations cites a declaration made by 47 anarchists on trial after their uprising in Lyons in 1870: "We wish, in a word, equality--equality in fact as corollary, or rather, as primordial condition of liberty.
From each according to his faculties, to each according to his needs; that is what we wish sincerely and energetically."] [Footnote 2186: Buchez et Roux, XXXI, 273, (Report by Robespierre, Pluviose17, year II.
(7 Feb.
1794).] [Footnote 2187: Moniteur, XIX (Rapport by Barere, Ventose 21, an II). "You should detect and combat federalism in all your institutions, as your natural enemy....A grand central establishment for all the work of the Republic is an effective means against federalism."-- Buchez et Roux, XXXI, 351, et XXXII, 316 (Rapports by Saint-Just, Ventose 23 et Germinal 26, year II).
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