2154 ([return])
[ Dumont, 351. "Each constitutional law was a party triumph.">[
2155 ([return])
[ Here Taine indicates how subversive parties may proceed to weaken a nation prior to their take-over.(SR.)]
CHAPTER II. DESTRUCTION.
I.—Two principal vices of the ancient régime.
Two principal reforms proposed by the King and the
privileged classes.—They suffice for actual needs.—
Impracticable if carried further.
In the structure of the old society there were two fundamental vices which called for two reforms of corresponding importance.[2201]