There can be no doubt that all the taxes that fall particularly on the Third Estate will be abolished. A country in which those citizens who benefit the most from the public establishment contribute the least is a strange sort of country! Even stranger is one where some taxes were said to be shameful to bear and where even the Legislator held them to be degrading!(*) What sort of a society, with even a modicum of sanity, would take work to be a derogation from nobility, would hold consumption to be honorable and production a form of humiliation, and would call hard physical labor vile, as if anything other than vice ought to be called vile, and as if there is more of this, the only real kind of vileness, to be found among the laboring classes!