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and virtue, defended with the courage of a lion by an immense population.

3d. Frenchmen without money, without privations, without ennui, without blue-devils, without the desire of amassing against the future — I behold them paying cheerfully to their country the common tribute ot all — labour; I behold them luxuriating in the pleasures of nature, and passing their unoccupied time in the gaieties of public festivals, in the discussion of laws, and in the instruction of youth.

4th. Society disenthralled from the litigations, the hatreds, the jealousies, and all the disastrous conse- quences of private property.

5th. Legislation reduced to a few simple elementary principles ; reduced, in fact, to the art of augmenting the knowledge and pleasures of society.

6th. The country, when threatened with danger, able to find, in the increase of a half-hour's work per day, more soldiers and resources than can, in the present order of things, be furnished by all the financiers of Europe.

Oh, my fellow-countrymen ! contemplate this picture of liberty, of peace, of happiness! Behold the only possible remedy for so many distractions, convulsions, and factions— evils which must terminate either in universal slavery or universal happiness. What, then, are the pow- erful obstacles to prevent us (upon returning to the ways of reason) from putting an end to our mutual jealousies, our fierce contests, and our propensities to destroy one another ? The stupidity of some, the sloth of others, and the vicious habits which have puffed with false pride the hearts of those who look cold-bloodedly on the misery cfr their fellow-creatures— the fruit of their baneful opulence — such are the obstacles that mar our progress.

Friends of the country ! patriot philosophers ! to you it belongs to finish the Revolution. To your reasonings — to your writings, it belongs to extirpate selfishness — the source of all misery and woe. To truth, in short, it belongs to destroy royalism, which, at once the cause and effect of monstrous inequality, will ever subsist under any and every form of government, until actual equality' and democracy shall have amalgamated all interests/