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"[56] "Since the nation has permitted their possession by the
clergy, she may re-demand that which is possessed only through her
authorization." "The principle must be maintained that every nation
is solely and veritably proprietor of the possessions of its
clergy."
This principle, it must be noted, as it is laid down, involves the
destruction of ecclesiastical and lay corporations, along with the
confiscation of all their possessions, and soon we shall see
appearing on the horizon the final and complete decree[57] by which
the Legislative Assembly,
"considering that a State truly free should not suffer any
corporation within its bosom, not even those which, devoted to
public instruction, deserve well of the country," not even those
"which are solely devoted to the service of the hospitals-and the
relief of the sick,"
suppresses all congregations, all associations of men or of women,
lay or ecclesiastical, all endowments for pious, charitable, and
missionary purposes, all houses of education, all seminaries and
colleges, and those of the Sorbonne and Navarre.


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