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system of equality— the necessity of a Government, and the too large extent of the Republic. The answer is obvious.

1st. The persons commissioned to preserve this system, the machinery of which is extremely simple, would be regarded as workers necessary to the general prosperity; and never being able to obtain more enjoyments than the other citizens (too deeply interested in watching ( them) there would be no occasion to fear any attempts on their part to retain their authority in contempt of the people's will.

2d. If all the difficulties which prejudices oppose to the community of labour and enjoyment in a small state or tribe can be easily vanquished, there is nothing to prevent the like result in a great association like the Republic of France. In the first place, it is readily conceived how all the citizens might be employed, each in his respective locality, and agreeably to the nature of the soil. As to the equal distribution of objects of consumption to all the communes of the Republic, or to all that might participate in it according to their relations with the differerent climates, I cannot see why a wise authority, unembarrassed by the obstacles with which these sorts of operations are now-a-days thwarted by the greedy selfishness of governors and governed, could not execute it with far more satisfaction to all the citizens than they experience in the actual state of things, abandoned, as they frequently are, to scarcity and famine, by the crafty calculations of speculators,

I behold, in the new order of things —

1. The arts placed, by providential institutions, in the localities where they would be most useful; and, by commingling with the agriculturists, working the extinction of those receptacles of every vice, large cities; and covering France with villages, adorned with immense and happy populations, whose propagation and multiplication there would be nothing to retard.

2d. Men, enlightened and trained to labour by education in common—loving their country more than they at present love their families—and deliberating, with a knowledge of causes on public affairs— I behold them giving to the world the first example of democracy