But while setting forth this advantage and a score of others that a wellconstituted assembly might be able to obtain for the people, I cannot yet see anything capable of promising a good constitution to the Third Estate. It has made no further advance in its demands. The privileged orders continue to defend all their advantages. Whatever the proportional number of deputies, they still want to form two separate chambers; they still want two votes out of three and they still insist that each of them should have a veto. What wonderful ways to make all reform impossible! Paralysis might suit the taste of the first two orders. But will it please the Third
Estate? It is not all that likely to be heard repeating the fine words of that royal tax farmer who said, Why change? We are so comfortable!