[Footnote 5103: An allusion to Malthusianism, practiced by many heads of families in France. M. Taine would probably have shown this practice contrary to national welfare.--Tr.] [Footnote 5104: Idolizing of children. (SR.)] [Footnote 5105: Cf. "Les carnets de voyage."] [Footnote 5106: On this idea see Volume I of "The Modern Régime," page 332, to the end of the chapter. (Ed. Laff. II. pp. 592 to 605).] [Footnote 5107: Today this would probably be the media especially television.] [Footnote 5108: Memorial, IV.,259 (June 7 and 8, 1816); V., 323 (Aug. 17, 1816).] [Footnote 5109: Thibaudeau, p. 152 (Prairial 21, year X.] [Footnote 5110: Idem, IV.,259, (June 7 and 8, 1816).--Pelet de la Lozere, "Opinions de Napoléon au conseil d'état," p 223, (March 4, 1806).] [Footnote 5111: "Discours, rapports et travaux sur le Concordat de 1801," by Portalis (published by Fréderick Portalis), p.10.--In his speech on the organization of cults (Germinal 15, year X), Portalis, although a good Catholic, adopts the same idea, because he is a legist and one of the ancient Régime. "Religions, even false, have this advantage, that they are an obstacle to the introduction of arbitrary doctrines. Individuals have a center of faith; governments have no fear of dogmas once known and which do not change. Superstition, so to say, is regulated, circumscribed and kept within bounds which it cannot, or dare not, go outside of."] [Footnote 5112: Thibaudeau, p. 151 (Prairial 21, year X). "The First Consul combated at length the different systems of the philosophy on cults, natural religions, deism, etc. All that according to him, was mere ideology."] [Footnote 5113: Pelet de la Lozère, p. 208 (May 22, 1804).] [Footnote 5114: Thibaudeau, p. 152 (Prairial 21, year X).] [Footnote 5115: Pelet de la Lozère, p, 223 (March 4, 1806).] [Footnote 5116: Roederer, "Oevres complètes," III., 334 (Aug. 18, 1800).] [Footnote 5117: What impression could this have made on Lenin? Could he not have felt: "Perhaps Napoleon's logic was good at that time but now with electricity, the steam engine and modern industrialism it will be possible to do without the efficiency of capitalism and hence with its inequalities and egoism? If so then we can recreate the equality dreamt of by Babeuf, Robespierre, Saint Just and the other ancient revolutionaries!!"] [Footnote 5118: Ref.: "Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will either be extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, and despotism will come from either of these excesses." Aristotle. (SR.)] [Footnote 5119: Pelet de la Lozère, p. 205 (February 11, 1804).] [Footnote 5120: Ibid., p. 201.] [Footnote 5121: Pelet de la Lozère, p. 206, (Feb. 11, 1804).] [Footnote 5122: Mémorial, V., 323 (Aug. 17, 1816).] [Footnote 5123: Pelet de la Lozère, p 201.] [Footnote 5124: Mémorial, V., 353 (Aug. 17, 1816). Notes on "Les Quatre Concordants," by M. de Pradt (Correspondence of Napoleon I., xxx., p.557).]