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Bureaucracy

CHAPTER IX
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If you stand still and listen, we shall come to an understanding before long.

Now, here's an axiom which I bequeath to this bureau and to all bureaus: Where the clerk ends, the functionary begins; where the functionary ends, the statesman rises.

There are very few statesmen among the prefects.

The prefect is therefore a neutral being among the higher species.

He comes between the statesman and the clerk, just as the custom-house officer stands between the civil and the military.


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