For it is he whom God has raised up in times of difficulty, to restore public worship and the holy religion of our forefathers, and to be its protector."[6214] II.

Higher Education.
Superior instruction .-- Characters and conditions of scientific universities .-- Motives for opposition to them.
-- In what respect adverse to the French system .-- How he replaces them .-- Extent of secondary instruction .-- Meets all wants in the new social order of things .-- The careers it leads to .-- Special schools .-- Napoleon requires them professional and practical .-- The law school.
Superior instruction, the most important of all, remains.

For, in this third and last stage of education, the minds and opinions of young people from eighteen to twenty-four years of age are fully formed.

It is then that, already free and nearly ripe, these future occupants of busy careers, just entering into practical life, shape their first general ideas, their still hazy and half-poetic views of things, their premature and foregone conclusions respecting man, nature, society and the great interests of humanity.
If we want them to arrive at sound conclusions, a good many scales must be prepared for them, and these scales must be substantial, convergent, each with its own rungs of the ladder superposed, each with an indication of its total scope, each expressly designating the absent, doubtful, provisional or simply future and possible rungs, because they are in course of formation or on trial.[6215]--Consequently, these must all be got together in a designated place, in adjacent buildings, not alone the body of professors, the spokes-men of science, but collections, laboratories and libraries which constitute the instruments.

Moreover, besides ordinary and regular courses of lectures, there must be lecture halls where, at appointed hours, every enterprising, knowledgeable person with something to say may speak to those who would like to listen.