ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors describe the psychology of the Latin peoples, that their character has favoured the development of certain institutions among them. They discover how these institutions became fixed, and how, having become causes in their turn, they have produced certain effects. In determining the manner in which the fundamental concepts of the Latin peoples become fixed sufficiently indicated the nature of their conception of the State. The authors show that the advance of Socialism is the natural consequence of the evolution of the Latin conception of the State. To the characteristics of the Latin peoples, and of the French especially, which are investigated in the foregoing pages, might be added this: that there are perhaps no peoples who have raised more revolutions, and yet none that are more obstinately attached to their institutions. Everything, institutions as well as education, has contributed to the absorption of functions by the State, of which show the lamentable effects.
