strategy is admirable, lately against Catholic ideas and
now against the secular mind. First of all, he has extended, selected
and defined his field of operations, and here is his objective point,
fixed by himself:

"On public affairs, which are my affairs in political, social and
moral matters, on history, and especially on actual history, recent
and modern, nobody of the present generation is to give any thought
but myself and, in the next generation, everybody will follow my
example."[6263]

The monopoly of education therefore belongs to him. He has introduced
military uniforms, discipline and spirit into all the public and private
secondary educational establishments. He has reduced and subjected the
ecclesiastical superintendence of primary education to the minimum. He
has removed the last vestige of regional, encyclopedic and autonomous
universities and substituted for these special and professional schools,
He has rendered veritable superior instruction abortive and stifled all
spontaneous and disinterested curiosity in youth.--Meanwhile ascending
to the source of secular knowledge, he has brought the Institute under
his influence. On this government tool he has effected the necessary
cuts, appropriated the credit to himself and imposed his favor or
disfavor on the masters of science and literature. Then, descending
from the source to the canals, constructing dams, arranging channels,
applying his constraints and impulsions, he has subjected science
and literature to his police, to his censorship and to his control
of publishing and printing. He has taken possession of all the
media--theatres, newspapers, books, pulpits and tribunes. He has
organized all these into one vast industry which he watches over and
directs, a factory of public attitudes which works unceasingly and in
his hands to the glorification of his system, reign and person.[6264]
Again here, he is found equal and similar to himself, a stern conqueror
making the most of his conquest to the last extreme, a shrewd operator
as meticulous as he is shrewd, as resourceful as he is consequent,
incomparable in adapting means to ends, unscrupulous in carrying them
out,[6265] fully satisfied that, through the constant physical pressure
of universal and crushing dread, all resistance would be overcome. He
is maintaining and prolonging the struggle with colossal forces, but
against a historic and natural force lying beyond his grasp, lately
against belief f