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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 5 (of 6)

CHAPTER III
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in VI volumes, Librarie Plon, Paris 1893.

IV., 112.

(According to the papers of Savary, many of Napoleon's letters and statements by M.de Saint-Aignan.)] [Footnote 3368: "Memorial," Aug.26, 1816.] [Footnote 3369: The driving motor of unlimited capitalism as well, a driving force only to be tempered by the law and by a desire for social admiration of different kinds.

(SR.)] [Footnote 3370: "Travels in France during the years 1814 and 1815." (Edinburgh, 1816, 2 vols.)--The author, a very good observer, thus sums up the principle of the system: "To give active employment to all men of talent and enterprise." There is no other condition: "Birth, education, moral character were completely set aside."-- Hence the general defect of the system.

"The French have literally no idea of any duties which they must voluntarily, without the prospect of reward, undertake for their country.


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