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market he will not readily resort to again. The townspeople will be
inflamed; they will force the country people to bring their corn.
Resistance will begin, and the murders of Paris and St. Denis may be
renewed through all France.
What signifies the empty compliment paid to the country by
giving it, perhaps, more than its share in the theory of your
representation? Where have you placed the real power over monied and
landed circulation? Where have you placed the means of raising and
falling the value of every man's freehold? Those whose operations
can take form, or add ten per cent to, the possessions of every man in
France must be the masters of every man in France. The whole of the
power obtained by this revolution will settle in the towns among the
burghers and the monied directors who lead them. The landed gentleman,
the yeoman, and the peasant have, none of them, habits or inclinations
or experience which can lead them to any share in this the sole source
of power and influence now left in France. The very nature of a
country life, the very nature of landed property, in all the
occupations, and all the pleasures they afford, render combination and
arrangement (the sole way of procuring and exerting influence) in a
manner impossible amongst country people. Combine them by all the
art you can, and all the industry, they are always dissolving into
individuality.
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