the Jacobin Club of Montereau, Thermidor, year II.)]

[Footnote 2183: These proposals should come to haunt western
civilization for a long time. (SR.)]

[Footnote 2184: Buchez et Roux, XXXV., 272. ("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). "Immorality is a federalism in the civil state...Civil
federalism, by isolating all parts of the state, has dried up
abundance."]

[Footnote 2188: Decree of Germinal 26-29, year II. "Financial companies
are and hereby remain suppressed. All bankers, commission merchants,
and other persons, are forbidden to form any establishment of this order
under any pretext or under any denomination."]

[Footnote 2189: "Memoires de Carnot," I., 278 (Report by Carnot). "That
is not family life. If there are local privileges there will soon be
individual privileges and local aristocracy will bring along in its
train the aristocracy of inhabitants."]

[Footnote 2190: Moniteur, XIX., 683 (Rapport by Barere, Ventose 21, year
II).--This report should be read in full to comprehend the communistic
and centralizing spirit of the Jacobins. (Undoubtedly Lenin, during his
years in Paris, had read Taine's footnote and asked the national library
for a copy of this rapport. SR.)]

[Footnote 2191: Fenet, "Travaux du Code civil," 105 (Rapports by
Cambaceres, August 9, 1793 and September 9, 1794).--Decrees of September
20, 1793 and Floreal 4, year II (On divorce).--Cf. "Institutions," by
Saint-Just (Buchez et Roux, XXXV, 302). "A man and woman who love
each other are married; if they have no children t