now, but we will have more to say on this subject in the sixth chapter. In
a few years time, when the objections now being made to the all-toomodest
demands made by the Third Estate come to be remembered,
there will be astonishment at both the specious character of the pretexts
that were invoked and, even more, at the bold iniquity which dared to
invoke them.
Those who seek to invoke the authority of facts to oppose the Third