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(Ed.Laff.II.pp.592 to 605).] [Footnote 5107: Today this would probably be the media especially television.] [Footnote 5108: Memorial, IV.,259 (June 7 and 8, 1816); V., 323 (Aug. 17, 1816).] [Footnote 5109: Thibaudeau, p.
152 (Prairial 21, year X.] [Footnote 5110: Idem, IV.,259, (June 7 and 8, 1816) .-- Pelet de la Lozere, "Opinions de Napoleon au conseil d'etat," p 223, (March 4, 1806).] [Footnote 5111: "Discours, rapports et travaux sur le Concordat de 1801," by Portalis (published by Frederick Portalis), p.10 .-- In his speech on the organization of cults (Germinal 15, year X), Portalis, although a good Catholic, adopts the same idea, because he is a legist and one of the ancient Regime.
"Religions, even false, have this advantage, that they are an obstacle to the introduction of arbitrary doctrines.
Individuals have a center of faith; governments have no fear of dogmas once known and which do not change.
Superstition, so to say, is regulated, circumscribed and kept within bounds which it cannot, or dare not, go outside of."] [Footnote 5112: Thibaudeau, p.
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