[21] Exposition des Principes et des Motifs du Plan de Constitution: Condorcet, Œuvres, Tom. XII. pp. 336, 413.
[22] Moniteur, 1793, No. 178.
[23] Annuaire Historique Universel pour 1830, Appendice, p. 48.
[24] Book III. § 80. The same idea prevailed with Demosthenes, who, in his First Oration against Aristogiton, pictured the laws as desiring "the just and the beautiful and the useful," which, when found, is set forth in a general ordinance, "equal and alike to all."—Orat. I. contra Aristogit., § 5.
[25] Virgil, Eclog. II. 16.
[26] Revised Statutes, Ch. 23.
[27] Charters and General Laws of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay, p. 186.
[28] Chap. 23, sec. 68.
[29] Chap. 154.
[30] Report to the Primary School Committee, June 15, 1846, on the Petition of Sundry Colored Persons for the Abolition of the Schools for Colored Children, p. 7.