inciples--the one of progress and immortality, the other
of disease and disorganization." No doubt; and as the one tends towards
liberty, so the other is only to be cured by order: and then, with a
singular felicity, Prince Louis picks us out a couple of governments, in
one of which the common regulating power is as notoriously too weak,
as it is in the other too strong, and talks in rapturous terms of the
manner in which they fulfil their "providential mission!"

From these considerations on things in general, the Prince conducts us
to Napoleon in particular, and enters largely into a discussion of the
merits of the imperial system. Our author speaks of the Emperor's advent
in the following grandiose way:--

"Napoleon, on arriving at the public stage, saw that his part was to
be the TESTAMENTARY EXECUTOR of the Revolution. The destructive fire of
parties was extinct; and when the Revolution, dying, but not vanquished,
delegated to Napoleon the accomplishment of her last will, she said to
him, 'Establish upon solid bases the principal result of my efforts.
Unite divided Frenchmen. Defeat feudal Europe that is leagued against
me. Cicatrize my wounds. Enlighten the nations. Execute that in width,
which I have had to perform in depth. Be for Europe what I have been for
France. And, even if you must water the tree of civilization with
your blood--if you must see your projects misunderstood, and your sons
without a country, wandering over the face of the earth, never abandon
the sacred cause of the French people. Insure its triumph by all the
means which genius can discover and humanity approve.'

"This grand mission Napoleon performed to the end. His task was
difficult. He had to place upon new principles a society still
boiling with hatred and revenge; and to use, for building up, the same
instruments which had been employed for pulling down.

"The common lot of every new truth that arises, is to wound rather
than to convince--rather than to gain proselytes, to awaken fear. For,
oppressed as it long has been, it rushes forward with additional force;
having to encounter obstacles, it is compelled to combat them, and
overthrow them; until, at length, comprehended and adopted by the
generality, it becomes the basis of new social order.

"Liberty will follow the same march as the Christian religion. Armed
with death from the ancient society of Rome, it for a long while excited
the hatred and fear of the people. At last, by