[Footnote 2254: Moniteur, sitting of November 2, 1789. Speech by Chapelier; October 24, 1789, speech by Garat; October 30, 1789, speech by Mirabeau, and the sitting of August 10, 1789.] [Footnote 2255: Moniteur, sitting of October 23, 1789. Speech by Thouret.] [Footnote 2256: Moniteur, sitting of October 23, 1789. Speech by Treilhard; October 24th, speech by Garat; October 30, speech by Mirabeau.--On the 8th of August, 1789, Al. de Lameth says in the tribune: "When an foundation was set up, it is to the nation, which the grant was given."] [Footnote 2257: Duvergier, laws of August 18, 1792; August 8-14, 1793; July 11, 1794; July 14, 1792; August 24, 1793.] [Footnote 2258: Moniteur, sitting of July 31, 1792. Speech of M. Boistard; the property of the hospitals, at this time was estimated at eight hundred millions.--Already in 1791 (sitting of January 30th) M. de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt said to the Assembly: "Nothing will more readily restore confidence to the poor than to see the nation assuming the right of rendering them assistance." He proposes to decree; accordingly, that all hospitals and places of beneficence be placed under the control of the nation. (Mercure, February 12, 1791.)] [Footnote 2259: Moniteur, sitting of August 10, 1789. Speech by Sieyès.--The figures given here are deduced from the statistics already given in the "Ancient Régime."] [Footnote 2260: Moniteur, v. 571. sitting of September 4, 1790. Report of the Committee on Finances--V. 675, sitting of September 17, 1790. Report by Necker.] [Footnote 2261: A Revolutionary Government promissory bank note. (SR.)] [Footnote 2262: Sauzay, I. 228 (from October 10, 1790, to February 20, 1791). "The total weight of the spoil of the monastic establishments in gold, silver, and plated ware, sent to the Mint amounted to more than 525 kilograms (for the department)."] [Footnote 2263: Duvergier, law of October 8-14.] [Footnote 2264: Moniteur, sitting of June 3,1792. Speech of M. Bernard, in the name of the committee of Public Assistance: "Not a day passes in which we do not receive the saddest news from the departments on the penury of their hospitals."--Mercure de France, December 17, 1791, sitting of December 5. A number of deputies of the Department of the North demand aid for their hospitals and municipalities. Out of 480,000 livres revenue there remains 10,000 to them. "The property of the Communes is mortgaged, and no longer affords them any resources. 280,000 persons are without bread."] [Footnote 2265: Sauzay, I. 252 (December 3, 1790. April 13, 1791).] [Footnote 2266: Moniteur, sitting of June 1, 1790. Speeches by Camus, Treilhard, etc.] [Footnote 2267: But on the assumption that all religion has been invented by human beings for their own comfort or use, then what would be more natural than clever rulers using their power to influence the religious authorities to their own advantage. (SR.)]