I would rather live under the feet of the Czar than in those states of perfectibility imagined by Fourier and Cabet, if I might choose my 'pis aller.' All these speculators (even Louis Blanc, who is one of the most rational) would revolutionalise, not merely countries, but the elemental conditions of humanity, it seems to me; none of them seeing that antagonism is necessary to all progress.

A man, in walking, must set one foot before another, and in climbing (as Dante observed long ago) the foot behind 'e sempre il piu basso.' Only the gods (Plato tells us) keep both feet joined together in moving onward.

It is not so, and cannot be so, with men.
But I think that not only in relation to the socialists, but to the monarchies, is L.N.the choice of the French people.

I think that they will not _bear_ the monarchies, they will not have either of them, they put them away.

It seems to me that the French people is essentially democratical, and that by the vote in question they never meant to give away either rights or liberties.