als. "But I want
neither one nor the other." Two conditions are requisite for the new
establishment. First of all,

"I want a corporation because a corporation never dies"; it alone,
through its perpetuity, maintains teaching in the way marked out for it,
brings up "according to fixed principles" successive generations, thus
assuring the stability of the political State, and "inspires youth with
a spirit and opinions in conformity with the new laws of the empire."
And this corporation must be secular. Its members are to be State and
not Church "Jesuits";[6129] they must belong to the Emperor and not to
the Pope, and will form, in the hands of the government, a civil militia
composed of "ten thousand persons," administrators and professors of
every degree, comprehending schoolmasters, an organized, coherent and
lasting militia

As it must be secular, there must be no hold on it through dogma
or faith, paradise or hell, no spiritual incitements; consequently,
temporal means are to be employed, not less effective, when one knows
how to manage them,--self-esteem, pride, (amour propre), competition,
imagination, ambition, magnificent hopes and vague dreams of unlimited
promotion, in short, the means and motives already maintaining the
temper and zeal of the army. "The educational corps must copy the
classification of military grades; "an order of promotion," a hierarchy
of places is to be instituted; no one will attain superior rank without
having passed through the inferior; "no one can become a principal
without having been a teacher, nor professor in the higher classes
without having taught in the lower ones."--And, on the other hand, the
highest places will be within reach of all; "the young, who devoted
themselves to teaching, will enjoy the perspective of rising from one
grade to another, up to the highest dignities of the State." Authority,
importance, titles, large salaries, pre-eminence, precedence,--these are
to exist in the University as in other public careers and furnish the
wherewithal for the most magnificent dreams.[6130] "The feet of this
great body[6131] will be on the college benches and its head in the
senate." Its chief, the Grand-Master, unique of his species, less
restricted, with freer hands than the ministers themselves, is to be one
of the principal personages of the empire; his greatness will exalt the
condition and feeling of his subordinates. In the provinces, on every
festive occasion or at ev