Hatred of the middle class it may be, but not socialism.

Look at the socialist department _par excellence_, the Department of Agriculture and of Commerce,--he has abolished it.

What has he given you as compensation?
the Ministry of Police! The other socialist department is the Department of Public Instruction, and that is in danger: one of these days it will be suppressed.

The starting-point of socialism is education, gratuitous and obligatory teaching, knowledge.
To take the children and make men of them, to take the men and make citizens of them--intelligent, honest, useful, and happy citizens.
Intellectual and moral progress first, and material progress after.

The two first, irresistibly and of themselves, bring on the last.