Be it so.

We concede all that.

What then?
What conclusion does the _coup d'etat_ thence derive?
What conclusion?
It rubs its hands, it asks nothing further; that is quite sufficient; it concludes that all is right, all complete, all finished, that nothing more is to be said, that it is "absolved." Stop, there! The free vote, the actual figures--these are only the physical side of the question; the moral side remains to be considered.

Ah! there is a moral side, then?
Undoubtedly, prince, and that is precisely the true side, the important side of this question of the 2nd of December.

Let us look into it.
VI THE MORAL SIDE OF THE QUESTION First, M.Bonaparte, it is expedient that you should acquire a notion what the human conscience is.
There are two things in this world--learn this novelty--which men call good and evil.