The situations will then afford a career which offers to knowledge and good behavior the hope of reaching the highest position in the imperial university."] [Footnote 6131: Pelet de la Lozere, ibid.] [Footnote 6132: "Proces-verbaux des seances du conseil de l'Universite." (In manuscript.) Memoir of February 1, 1811, on the means for developing the spirit of the corporation in the University.

In this memoir, communicated to the Emperor, the above motive is alleged.] [Footnote 6133: Pelet de la Lozere.] [Footnote 6134: I can imagine the effect this description of Napoleon's genius and inventive spirit must have had on Lenin when he lived and studied in Paris and forged his plans for a communist state, a world revolution, an annihilation of the existing order and the creation of a new (and better) one.

(SR.)] [Footnote 6135: Decree of March 17, 1808, arts.

101, 102.] [Footnote 6136: In any pre-revolutionary society, authority must be undermined, women introduced whenever it can lessen the efficiency of the organization.

But once the revolution has won, then Lenin's dictum about entrusting men of administrative talent with the full authority of the dictatorship of the proletariat is to be followed.