will render the man bowed down with fatique insensible to his forlorn condition; which will fill the soul of the poor and unfortunate with the sentiment of social equality and raise man up to the full sense of his dignity; which will suppress with the rich man the slightest feeling of pride and extinguish in the public functionary all germs of haughtiness and aristocracy."] [Footnote 21114: Archives Nationales, AF.II., ii., 48 (Act of Floreal 25, year II.) "the Committee of Public Safety request David, representative of the people, to present his views and plans in relation to modifying the present national costume, so as to render it appropriate to republican habits and the character of the Revolution."-- Ibid., (Act of Prairial 5, year II.) for engraving and coloring twenty thousand impressions of the design for a civil uniform, and six thousand impressions for the three designs for a military, judicial and legislative uniform.] [Footnote 21115: An identical change took, strangely enough and as caused by some hidden force, place in Denmark in the seventies.

(SR.)] [Footnote 21116: This is now the case in the entire Western 'democratic' sphere, in newspapers, schools, and on television.

(SR.)] [Footnote 21117: Ibid, XXXI., 271.

(Report by Robespierre, Pluviose 1, year II.) "This sublime principle supposes a preference for public interests over all private interests; from which it follows that the love of country supposes again, or produces, all the virtues." "As the essence of a republic or of democracy is equality, it follows that love of country necessarily comprises a love of equality." "The soul of the Republic is virtue, equality."-- Lavalette, "Memoirs," I., 254.

(Narrated by Madame Lavalette.) She was compelled to attend public festivals, and, every month, the patriotic processions.