(Napoleon conversing with the tribune Gallois): "Liberty consists of a good civil code, while modern nations care for nothing but property."--"Correspondance," letter to Fouché, Jan. 15, 1805. (This letter gives a good summary of his ideas on government.) "In France, whatever is not forbidden is allowed, and nothing can be forbidden except by the laws, by the courts, or police measures in all matters relating to public order and morality."] [Footnote 2326: Roederer, "æuvres complètes," III., 339 (Speech by the First Consul, October 21, 1800): "Rank, now, is a recompense for every faithful service--the great advantage of equality, which has converted 20,000 lieutenancies, formerly useless in relation to emulation, into the legitimate ambition and honorable reward of 400,000 soldiers."--Lafayette, "Mémoires," V., 350: "Under Napoleon, the soldiers said, he has been promoted King of Naples, of Holland, of Sweden, or of Spain, as formerly it was said that a than had been promoted sergeant in this or that company."] [Footnote 2327: "The Ancient Régime," book I., ch.2, the Structure of Society, especially pp.19-21. (Laff. I. p. 21-22)] [Footnote 2328: Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène"--Napoleon, speaking of his imperial organization, said that he had made the most compact government, one with the quickest circulation and the most nervous energy, that ever existed. And, he remarked, nothing but this would have answered in overcoming the immense difficulties around us, and for effecting the wonderful things we accomplished. The organization of prefectures, their action, their results, were admirable and prodigious. The same impulsion affected at the same time more than forty millions of men, and, aided by centers of local activity, the action was as rapid at every extremity as at the heart."] [Footnote 2329: "The Ancient Régime," book III., chs. 2 and 3. (Laff. I, pp. 139 to 151 and pp. 153 to 172.)] [Footnote 2330: Gibbon, "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," chs. I, 2, 3, and 13.--Duruy, "Histoire des Romains" (illustrated edition), tenth period, chs. 82, 83, 84, and 85; twelfth period, chs. 95 and 99; fourteenth period, ch. 104.--(The reader will find in these two excellent works the texts and monuments indicated to which it is necessary to resort for a direct and satisfactory impression.)] [Footnote 2331: See in Plutarch (Principles of Political Government) the situation of a Greek city under the Antonines.] [Footnote 2332: Gibbon, ch. 10.--Duruy, ch. 95. (Decrease of the population of Alexandria under Gallien, according to the registers of the alimentary institution, letter of the bishop Dionysius.)]