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. "I was rudely treated by my
associates, the low women of the quarter; the daughter of an emigre, of
a marquis, or of an imprisoned mother, ought not to be allowed the
honor of their company;.... it was all wrong that she was not made an
apprentice.... Hortense de Beauharnais was apprenticed to her mother's
seamstress, while Eugene was put with a carpenter in the Faubourg
St. Germain." The prevailing dogmatism has a singular effect with
simple-minded people. (Archives Nationals, AF. II., 135. petition of
Ursule Riesler, servant to citizen Estreich and arrested along with him,
addressed to Garneri, agent of the Committee of Public Safety. She begs
citizen Garnerin to interest himself in obtaining her freedom. She will
devote her life to praying to the Supreme Being for him, since he will
redeem he
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