To simplify means to suppress unnecessary machinery; removals naturally follow.
His system, therefore, depended on the weeding out of officials and the establishment of a new order of administrative offices.

No doubt the hatred which all reformers incur takes its rise here.

Removals required by this perfecting process, always ill-understood, threaten the well-being of those on whom a change in their condition is thus forced.
What rendered Rabourdin really great was that he was able to restrain the enthusiasm that possesses all reformers, and to patiently seek out a slow evolving medium for all changes so as to avoid shocks, leaving time and experience to prove the excellence of each reform.

The grandeur of the result anticipated might make us doubt its possibility if we lose sight of this essential point in our rapid analysis of his system.

It is, therefore, not unimportant to show through his self-communings, however incomplete they might be, the point of view from which he looked at the administrative horizon.