Let it be noted that he is not an opponent, an irregular: M.de Fontaines himself praises his teaching, his excellent mind, his perfect exactitude, and calls him the universitarian of the university.

But he does not belong to it, he stands aloof and stays at home, he is not disposed to become a mere cog-wheel in the imperial manufactory.

Therefore, whether he is aware of it or not, he does it harm and all the more according to his prosperity; his full house empties the lycees; the more pupils he has the less they have.

Private enterprises in their essence enter into competition with public enterprise.
For this reason, if tolerated by the latter, it is reluctantly and because nothing else can be done; there are too many of them; the money and the means to replace them at one stroke would be wanting.

Moreover, with instruction, the consumers, as with other supplies and commodities, naturally dislike monopoly; they must be gradually brought to it; resignation must come to them through habit.