The things we do!

Total for direct
taxation, 300,000,000, or one-fourth -- that is to say, twenty-five
per cent, of the net revenue.-- If the direct taxation had been
maintained up to the rate of the ancient r?gime (190,000,000,
according to Necker's report in May, 1689), this impost would only
have provided one-sixth of the net revenue, or sixteen percent.
[7] Dumont, 267. (The words of Mirabeau three months before his
death:) "Ah, my friend, how right we were at the start when we
wanted to prevent the commons from declaring themselves the National
Assembly! That was the source of the evil. They wanted to rule the
King, instead of ruling through him."
[8] Gouverneur Morris, April 29, 1789 (on the principles of the
future constitution), "One generation at least will be required to
render the public familiar with them."
[9] Cf. "The Ancient R?gime," book II, ch. III.
[10] French women did not obtain the right to vote until 1946. (SR.)
[11] According to Voltaire ("L'Homme aux Quarante ?cus"), the
average duration of human life was only twenty-three years.


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