This would include the existing 18,421 special constables, and other public-spirited individuals, who would be paid for serving a minimum number of days per month.
His public-spirited exertions for the general good and his kindnesses to individual royalists were forgotten, and only his denunciations of the king and his attacks on the clergy were remembered.
The new rebels were opposed not only to the ethic of self-control in its altruistic, public-spirited facet, but also in its individualistic, self-improving, self-help aspect.