Why, then, while laboring with such laudable enthusiasm for the establishment of equality, should you retain an expression whose equivocal meaning will always be an obstacle in the way of your success?
There you have the first reason--a wholly philosophical one--for rejecting not only the thing, but the name, property.

Here now is the political, the highest reason.
Every social revolution--M.

Cousin will tell you--is effected only by the realization of an idea, either political, moral, or religious.

When Alexander conquered Asia, his idea was to avenge Greek liberty against the insults of Oriental despotism; when Marius and Caesar overthrew the Roman patricians, their idea was to give bread to the people; when Christianity revolutionized the world, its idea was to emancipate mankind, and to substitute the worship of one God for the deities of Epicurus and Homer; when France rose in '89, her idea was liberty and equality before the law.

There has been no true revolution, says M.
Cousin, with out its idea; so that where an idea does not exist, or even fails of a formal expression, revolution is impossible.