The things we do!

- How far and why they were worthy of respect. - How
they should have been transformed. - Principle of the Assembly as
to original liberty. - Distinction established by it in feudal
dues; application of its principle. - The lacunae of its law. -
Difficulties of redemption. - Actual abolition of all feudal liens.
- Abolition of titles and territorial names. - Growing prejudice
against the aristocracy. - Its persecutions. - The emigration. -
Was it necessary to begin by making a clean sweep, and was it
advisable to abolish or only to reform the various orders and
corporations? -- Two prominent orders, the clergy and the nobles,
enlarged by the ennobled plebeians who had grown wealthy and
acquired titled estates, formed a privileged aristocracy side by
side with the Government, whose favors it might receive on the
condition of seeking them assiduously and with due acknowledgment,
privileged on its own domains, and taking advantage there of all
rights belonging to the feudal chieftain without performing his
duties.


Pages:
338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362