You will convince yourself of it, Sire, if you will condescend to try our system on something which is familiar to you,--like shuffling cards, for instance.

We can then flatter ourselves that we have opened an illimitable career to labor.
When workmen of all kinds are reduced to their left hands, consider, Sire, the immense number that will be required to meet the present consumption, supposing it to be invariable, which we always do when we compare differing systems of production.

So prodigious a demand for manual labor cannot fail to bring about a considerable increase in wages; and pauperism will disappear from the country as if by enchantment.
Sire, your paternal heart will rejoice at the thought that the benefits of this regulation will extend over that interesting portion of the great family whose fate excites your liveliest solicitude.
What is the destiny of women in France?
That sex which is the boldest and most hardened to fatigue, is, insensibly, driving them from all fields of labor.
Formerly they found a refuge in the lottery offices.

These have been closed by a pitiless philanthropy; and under what pretext?
"To save," said they, "the money of the poor." Alas! has a poor man ever obtained from a piece of money enjoyments as sweet and innocent as those which the mysterious urn of fortune contained for him?
Cut off from all the sweets of life, how many delicious hours did he introduce into the bosom of his family when, every two weeks, he put the value of a day's labor on a _quatern_.

Hope had always her place at the domestic hearth.