The things we do!

In another it dispossesses and breaks up all
historic or natural corporations, religious congregations, clerical
bodies, provinces, parliaments, societies of art and of all other
professions and pursuits. This done, every tie or bond which holds
men together is found to be severed; all subordination and every
graduated scale of rank have disappeared. There is no longer rank
and file, or commander-in-chief. Nothing remains but individual
particles, 26 millions of equal and disconnected atoms. Never was
so much disintegrated matter, less capable of resistance, offered to
hands undertaking to mold it. Harshness and violence will be
sufficient to ensure success. These brutal hands are ready for the
work, and the Assembly which has reduced the material to powder has
likewise provided the mortar and pestle. As awkward in destruction
as it is in construction, it invents for the restoration of order in
a society which is turned upside down a machine which would, of
itself, create disorder in a tranquil society.


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