ABSTRACT
The French population, although forced by circumstances to seek a return to order, could only be reorganised socially by a man of genius. Bonaparte undertook the task and succeeded. In Europe the activity of governments is not at present troubled by any ostensible opposition from the governed. The symptoms that were to be observed in France during that country’s terrible explosion are visible among the English and even the Germans. Experience has proved that new, powerful, and just conceptions which serve as a basis for discoveries are, to begin with, usually mixed up with false ideas. Physiology is at the undeveloped stage through which the astronomical and chemical sciences have passed. The physiologists must expel the philosophers, moralists, and metaphysicians, just as the astronomers expelled the astrologers, and the chemists expelled the alchemists. The obligation is imposed on everyone to constantly use their personal powers for the benefit of humanity.
