t and
small; up to the Consulate, we will deport and shoot the priests, we
will revive against fanatics the laws of the Reign of Terror, we will
hamper their movements, we will exhaust their patience; we will keep
them anxious during the day and restless at night; we will not give them
a moment's repose.[2137] We will restrict the population to the decadal
cult only; we will change the market-days, so that no believer shall
be able to buy fish on a fast-day.[2138]--We have nothing more at heart
than this war against Catholicism; no article on our program will be
carried out with more determination and perseverance. The question
involved is truth. We are its guardians, its champions, its ministers,
and never did the servants of truth apply force with such minute detail
and such effect to the extirpation of error.

V. Equality and Inequality.

Social inequality.--Malice of the aristocratic race.
--Measures against the King and Nobles.--Malice of the
aristocracy of wealth.--Measures against landowners,
capitalists and people with incomes.--Destruction of large
fortunes.--Measures taken to prevent the large fortunes in
reconstituting themselves.

Next to superstition there is another monster to be destroyed, and, also
here it was the Constituent Assembly that had begun the assault. But it
had also, through lack of courage or of logic, it stopped, after two or
three feeble blows:

* Banning of heraldic insignia, titles of nobility and territorial
names;

* abolition, without indemnity, of all the dues belonging to the
seigneur by right of his former proprietorship over persons;

* abolition of the permission to purchase other feudal rights at a price
agreed upon,

* limitation of royal power. This was little enough. When it concerns
usurpers and tyrants they must be treated in another fashion; for their
privilege is, of itself, an outrage on the rights of man. Consequently,

* we (the Jacobins) have dethroned the King and cut off his head;[2139]

* we have suppressed, without indemnity, the entire feudal debt,
comprising the rights vested in the seigneurs by virtue of their being
owners of real-estate, and merely lessors;

* we have abandoned their persons and possessions to the claims and
rancor of local jacqueries;

* we have reduced them to emigration;

* we imprison them if they stay at home;

* we guillotine them if they return.

(As the aristocrats are)Reared in ha