Paris and the Social Revolution A Study of the Revolutionary Elements in the Various Classes of Parisian Society

PART II

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THE ELITE

“_The man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys. Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate’er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men and, of the human frame, A mechanized automaton._”

SHELLEY.