Others have presented themselves, pretending to reconcile the two opinions by uniting them.

They have failed, like all the _juste-milieux_ of the world, and are laughed at for their eclecticism.
At present, the alarm is in the camp of the old doctrine; from all sides pour IN DEFENCES OF PROPERTY, STUDIES REGARDING PROPERTY, THEORIES OF PROPERTY, each one of which, giving the lie to the rest, inflicts a fresh wound upon property.
Consider, indeed, the inextricable embarrassments, the contradictions, the absurdities, the incredible nonsense, in which the bold defenders of property so lightly involve themselves.

I choose the eclectics, because, those killed, the others cannot survive.
M.Troplong, jurist, passes for a philosopher in the eyes of the editors of "Le Droit." I tell the gentlemen of "Le Droit" that, in the judgment of philosophers, M.Troplong is only an advocate; and I prove my assertion.
M.Troplong is a defender of progress.

"The words of the code," says he, "are fruitful sap with which the classic works of the eighteenth century overflow.

To wish to suppress them...