[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. As Taine was translated into German, Hitler is likely, directly or indirectly to have studied Napoleon. Hitler's "führerprincip" a principle which gave the Nazi society its terrible efficiency was probably the result. (SR.)] [Footnote 6137: Decree of March 20, 1808, articles 40-46.] [Footnote 6138: For example, act of March 31, 1812, On leaves of absence.--Cf. the regulations of April 8, 1810, for the "École de la Maternité," titres ix, x and xi). In this strict and special instance we see plainly what Napoleon meant by "the police" of a school.] [Footnote 6139: Pelet de la Lozère, Ibid.] [Footnote 6140: It seems to me probable that an aspiring revolutionary like Hitler, Lenin, Stalin or Trotsky) would attempt to copy Napoleon's once he had successfully taken power inside first the party and later the state. To enhance the dissolution of a democracy the opposite system, that is tenure irrespective of performance, the right to operate militant trade unions and to conduct strikes, would be demanded for all government employees. (SR.)] [Footnote 6141: Decree of March 17, 1808, articles 47 and 48.] [Footnote 6142: Decree of Nov. 15, 1811, articles 66 and 69.] [Footnote 6143: Procès-verbaux et papiers du conseil supérior de l'Université (in manuscript).--(Two memoirs submitted to the Emperor, Feb. 1, 1811, on the means of strengthening the discipline and spirit of the body in the University.)--The memoir requests that the sentences of the university authorities be executable on the simple exequatur of the courts; it is important to diminish the intervention of tribunals and prefects, to cut short appeals and pleadings; the University must have full powers and full jurisdiction on its domain, collect taxes from its taxpayers, and repress all infractions of those amenable to its jurisdiction. (Please not the exequatur is a French ordnance by which the courts gives a decision by a third party or an umpire executory force. SR.)] [Footnote 6144: "Statut sur l'administration, l'ensignement et la police de l'École normale," March 30, 1810, title II, articles 20-23.]