Of Equality Than Of Liberty The first and most intense passion which is engendered by the equality of conditions is, I need hardly say, the love of that same equality.

My readers will therefore not be surprised that I speak of its before all others.

Everybody has remarked that in our time, and especially in France, this passion for equality is every day gaining ground in the human heart.

It has been said a hundred times that our contemporaries are far more ardently and tenaciously attached to equality than to freedom; but as I do not find that the causes of the fact have been sufficiently analyzed, I shall endeavor to point them out.
It is possible to imagine an extreme point at which freedom and equality would meet and be confounded together.

Let us suppose that all the members of the community take a part in the government, and that each of them has an equal right to take a part in it.