ABSTRACT
The common interest of France and England requires the Royal Society of London and the Imperial Institute of France to work together on a new encyclopaedia. The encyclopaedia of the nineteenth century must be founded on the principle that science, as a whole as well as in its various branches, should be based on observation. The English and the French are superior to other peoples in both their domestic and foreign policies. These two nations have the best constitutions, or rather they are the only nations which enjoy the benefit of a constitution. No Englishman had studied the series of the human mind’s progress in sufficient depth to predict the political and religious crisis, a crisis made inevitable by the scientific supremacy achieved by the laity over the priests, and by the decline in the clergy’s morality. ‘The French have started a revolution. Their political crisis will inevitably cause them to neglect industry and commerce.
