![]() ![]() ![]() It established the finances of France, and caused public credit to succeed to the long monarchical bankruptcy. It decreed the unity of the Code, the unity of weights and measures, and the unity of calculation by the decimal system. It created the academies of music and the museums. It organized national education by the normal school of Paris central schools in the chief towns primary schools in the communes. It proclaimed civic joint responsibility. It branded the slave-trade it abolished slavery. It declared indigence sacred it declared infirmity sacred in the blind and the deaf and dumb, who became wards of the State maternity sacred in the girl-mother, whom it consoled and lifted up infancy sacred in the orphan, whom it caused to be adopted by the country innocence sacred in the accused who was acquitted, whom it indemnified. The Convention promulgated this grand axiom: "The liberty of each citizen ends where the liberty of another citizen commences,"-which comprises in two lines all human social law. ![]() Out of this chaos of shadow, this tumultuous flight of clouds, spread immense rays of light parallel to the eternal laws,-rays that have remained on the horizon, visible forever in the heaven of the peoples, and which are, one, Justice another, Tolerance another, Goodness another, Right another, Truth another, Love. ![]() In this caldron, where terror bubbled, progress fermented. At the same time that it threw off revolution, this Assembly produced civilization. ![]()
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