ussieu, Mirbel, Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire and Cuvier, pursue their
researches; let Delambre and Cuvier, in their quarterly reports, sum up
and announce discoveries; let, in the second division of the Institute,
Volney, Destutt de Tracy, Andrieux, Picard, Lemercier and Chateaubriand,
if the latter desires to take part in its sittings, give dissertations
on language, grammar, rhetoric, rules of style and of taste; let, in the
third division of the Institute, Sylvestre de Sacy publish his Arabic
grammar; let Langles continue his Persian, Indian and Tartar studies;
let Quatremere de Quincy, explaining the structure of the great
chryselephantine statues, reproduce conjecturally the surface of ivory
and the internal framework of the Olympian Jupiter; let D'Ansse de
Villoison discover in Venice the commentary of the Alexandrian critics
on Homer; let Larcher, Boissonade, Clavier, alongside of Coray publish
their editions of the old Greek authors--all this causes no trouble,
and all is for the honor of the government. Their credit reflects on
the avowed promoter, the official patron and responsible director of
science, erudition and talent therefore, in his own interest, he favors
and rewards them. Laurent de Jussieu and Cuvier are titular councillors
of the University, Delambre is its treasurer, and Fontanes its
Grand-Master. Delille, Boissonade and Royer-Collard and Guizot teach in
the faculty of letters; Biot, Poisson, Gay-Lussac, Hauey, Thenard,
Brongniart, Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire in the faculty of the sciences;
Monge, Berthollet, Fourier, Andrieux in the Ecole Polytechnique; Pinel,
Vauquelin, Jussieu, Richerand, Dupuytren in the Ecole de Medecine.
Fourcroy is councillor of State, Laplace and Chaptal, after having been
ministers, become senators; in 1813, there are twenty-three members of
the Institute in the Senate; the zoologist Lacepede is grand-chancellor
of the Legion of Honor; while fifty-six members of the Institute,
decorated with an imperial title, are chevaliers, barons, dukes, and
even princes.[6241]--This is even one more lien, admirably serving to
bind them to the government more firmly and to in-corporate them more
and more in the system. In effect, they now derive their importance
and their living from the system and the government; having become
dignitaries and functionaries they possess a password in this twofold
capacity; henceforth, they will do well to look upward to the master
before expressing a thought and t