[292]: It is well known that the head of the poor negro is shut up in a hollow one of iron, which presses down his tongue.
[293]: Written in the year 1792.
[294]: The millionnaire presupposes the beggar, the scholar, the Helot; the higher culture of individuals is purchased by the degradation of the mass.
[295]: Written in 1792. At present the tempest which once stood in the heavens over all Europe lies out there in the level earth.
[296]: For after 400,000 years the earth's axis, as Jupiter's is now, will be perpendicular to the plane of its orbit.