I put it to you, is it permissible, in the light of the most superficial glance at society, to repeat that everything will be equal as soon as the nobility renounces its monetary tax exemptions? There are indeed some men who are sensible only to money. Being literally paralyzed when it is a matter of liberty, honor, equality before the law or, in a word, every social right except money, they cannot imagine that it might be possible to be anxious about anything other than paying a penny more or less. But I am not writing for men of so vile a character