uncil of State, sessions of Feb. 10, March 1, 11 and
20, April 7, and May 21 and 29, 1806.)]

[Footnote 6129: Napoleon himself said this: "I want a corporation, not
of Jesuits whose sovereign is in Rome, but Jesuits who have no
other ambition but to be useful and no other interest but the public
interest."]

[Footnote 6130: This intention is formally expressed in the law. (Decree
of March 17, 1808, art. 30.) "Immediately after the formation of
the imperial university, the order of rank shall be followed in the
appointment of functionaries, and no one can be assigned a place who has
not passed through the lowest. The situations will then afford a career
which offers to knowledge and good behavior the hope of reaching the
highest position in the imperial university."]

[Footnote 6131: Pelet de la Lozere, ibid.]

[Footnote 6132: "Proces-verbaux des seances du conseil de l'Universite."
(In manuscript.) Memoir of February 1, 1811, on the means for developing
the spirit of the corporation in the University. In this memoir,
communicated to the Emperor, the above motive is alleged.]

[Footnote 6133: Pelet de la Lozere.]

[Footnote 6134: I can imagine the effect this description of Napoleon's
genius and inventive spirit must have had on Lenin when he lived and
studied in Paris and forged his plans for a communist state, a world
revolution, an annihilation of the existing order and the creation of a
new (and better) one. (SR.)]

[Footnote 6135: Decree of March 17, 1808, arts. 101, 102.]

[Footnote 6136: In any pre-revolutionary society, authority must be
undermined, women introduced whenever it can lessen the efficiency of
the organization. But once the revolution has won, then Lenin's dictum
about entrusting men of administrative talent with the full authority
of the dictatorship of the proletariat is to be followed. As Taine was
translated into German, Hitler is likely, directly or indirectly to have
studied Napoleon. Hitler's "fuehrerprincip" a principle which gave the
Nazi society its terrible efficiency was probably the result. (SR.)]

[Footnote 6137: Decree of March 20, 1808, articles 40-46.]

[Footnote 6138: For example, act of March 31, 1812, On leaves of
absence.--Cf. the regulations of April 8, 1810, for the "Ecole de la
Maternite," titres ix, x and xi). In this strict and special instance we
see plainly what Napoleon meant by "the police" of a school.]

[Footnote 6139: Pelet de la Lozere, Ibid.]

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