Again history sheds a fascinating light which Tony Moxon finds relevant to today’s dialogue around the gap between rich and poor:

from Andrew Roberts book ‘Napoleon the Great’

“Lying deep within the French Revolution were the seeds of its own destruction because the concepts of liberty,equality and fraternity are mutually exclusive. A society can be formed around two of them, but never all three. Liberty and equality, if they are strictly observed, will obliterate fraternity; equality and fraternity must extinguish liberty; and fraternity and liberty can only come at the expense of equality. If extreme equality of outcome is the ultimate goal, as it was for the Jacobins, it will crush liberty and fraternity. With his creation of a new nobility Napoleon dispensed with that concept of equality, and instead enshrined in the French policy the concept of equality before the law……..”