If all the poor of Toledo were now shouting outside the doors of the Cathedral, rebellious and emboldened, I would open the way for them, I would point out those jewels that you covet, and I would say, 'Possess yourselves of those, they are so many drops of sweat and blood wrung from your ancestors; they represent the servile work on the land of the lords, the brutal plundering of the king's cavaliers, so that magnates and kings may cover with jewels those idols which can open to them the gates of heaven.

These things do not belong to you because you happen to be the most daring; they belong to all, as do all the riches of the earth.

For men to lay their hands on everything existing in the world would be a holy work, the redeeming revolution of the future.

To possess yourselves of some portion of what by moral right is not yours, would only be for you a crime against the laws of the land, for me it would be a crime against the disinherited, the only masters of the existing----" "Silence, Gabriel," said the bell-ringer harshly; "if I let you, you would go on talking till dawn.

I do not understand you, nor do I wish to.