year X), Portalis,
although a good Catholic, adopts the same idea, because he is a legist
and one of the ancient Regime. "Religions, even false, have this
advantage, that they are an obstacle to the introduction of arbitrary
doctrines. Individuals have a center of faith; governments have no fear
of dogmas once known and which do not change. Superstition, so to say,
is regulated, circumscribed and kept within bounds which it cannot, or
dare not, go outside of."]

[Footnote 5112: Thibaudeau, p. 151 (Prairial 21, year X). "The First
Consul combated at length the different systems of the philosophy on
cults, natural religions, deism, etc. All that according to him, was
mere ideology."]

[Footnote 5113: Pelet de la Lozere, p. 208 (May 22, 1804).]

[Footnote 5114: Thibaudeau, p. 152 (Prairial 21, year X).]

[Footnote 5115: Pelet de la Lozere, p, 223 (March 4, 1806).]

[Footnote 5116: Roederer, "Oevres completes," III., 334 (Aug. 18,
1800).]

[Footnote 5117: What impression could this have made on Lenin? Could he
not have felt: "Perhaps Napoleon's logic was good at that time but now
with electricity, the steam engine and modern industrialism it will be
possible to do without the efficiency of capitalism and hence with its
inequalities and egoism? If so then we can recreate the equality
dreamt of by Babeuf, Robespierre, Saint Just and the other ancient
revolutionaries!!"]

[Footnote 5118: Ref.: "Where some people are very wealthy and others
have nothing, the result will either be extreme democracy or absolute
oligarchy, and despotism will come from either of these excesses."
Aristotle. (SR.)]

[Footnote 5119: Pelet de la Lozere, p. 205 (February 11, 1804).]

[Footnote 5120: Ibid., p. 201.]

[Footnote 5121: Pelet de la Lozere, p. 206, (Feb. 11, 1804).]

[Footnote 5122: Memorial, V., 323 (Aug. 17, 1816).]

[Footnote 5123: Pelet de la Lozere, p 201.]

[Footnote 5124: Memorial, V., 353 (Aug. 17, 1816). Notes on "Les Quatre
Concordants," by M. de Pradt (Correspondence of Napoleon I., xxx.,
p.557).]

[Footnote 5125: Bourrienne, "Memoires," V., 232.]

[Footnote 5126: Notes on "Les Quatre Concordats," by M. de Pradt
(Correspondence of Napoleon I., XXX., 638 and 639).]

[Footnote 5127: Thibaudeau, p. 152 (Prairial 21, year X).]

[Footnote 5128: Notes on "Les Quatre Concordats," by M. de Pradt
(correspondence, XXX., 638).]

[Footnote 5129: Count Boulay de La Meurthe, "Negotiations du concordat."
(Extract from the