In France the Revolution constituted a complete breach with the traditions of the past it cleared out the very last vestiges of feudalism, and created in the Code Civil a masterly adaptation of the old Roman law-that almost perfect expression of the juridical relations corresponding to the economic stage called by Marx the production of commodities-to modern capitalistic conditions so austerely that this French revolutionary code still serves as a model for reforms of the law of property in all other countries, not excepting England. In England the continuity of pre-revolutionary and post-revolutionary institutions, and the compromise between landlords and capitalists, found its expression in the continuity of judicial precedents and in the religious preservation of the feudal forms of the law. The Great French Revolution was the third uprising of the bourgeoisie, but the first that had entirely cast off the religious cloak, and was fought out on undisguised political lines it was the first, too, that was really fought out up to the destruction of one of the combatants, the aristocracy, and the complete triumph of the other, the bourgeoisie.
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