h, speculative
or practical instruction: these are highest in repute and the most
influential; here the heads of science and of literature are found.
Through them and their seconds or followers of every degree, in the
faculties, lycees, colleges, minor seminaries, institutions, boarding
schools, and small schools, beliefs or opinions can be imposed on, or
suggested to, 2000 law students, 4000 medical students, 81,000 thousand
pupils in secondary education and 700,000 scholars in the primary
department. Let us retain and make use of this admirable tool, but let
us apply it to our own purposes and utilize it for our service.[6306]
Thus far, under the Republic and the Empire, its designers, more or less
Jacobin, have moved it as they thought best, and therefore moved it to
the "left". Let us now move, as it suits us, to the "right."[6307]
All that is necessary is to turn it in another direction and for good;
henceforth," the basis of education[6308] shall be religion, monarchy,
legitimacy and the charter."

To this end, we, the dominant party, use our legal rights. In the place
of bad wheels we put good ones. We purify our staff. We do not appoint
or leave in place any but safe men. At the end of six years, nearly
all the rectors, proviseurs and professors of philosophy, many other
professors and a number of the censors,[6309] are all priests. At the
Sorbonne, M. Cousin has been silenced and M. Guizot replaced by M.
Durosoir. At the College de France we have dismissed Tissot and we do
not accept M. Magendie. We "suppress" in block the Faculty of Medicine
in order that, on reorganizing it, our hands may be free and eleven
professors with bad notes be got rid of, among others Pinel, Dubois, de
Jussieu, Desgenettes, Pelletan and Vauquelin. We suppress another center
of insalubrities, the upper Ecole Normale, and, for the recruitment of
our educational body, we institute[6310] at the principal seat of each
academy a sort of university novitiate where the pupils, few in number,
expressly selected, prepared from their infancy, will imbibe deeper
and more firmly retain the sound doctrines suitable to their future
condition.

We let the small seminaries multiply and fill up until they comprise
50,000 pupils. It is the bishop who founds them; no educator or
inspector of education is so worthy of confidence. Therefore, we confer
upon him "in all that concerns religion,"[6311] the duty "of visiting
them himself, or delegating his v