5108 ([return])
[ Memorial, IV.,259 (June 7 and 8, 1816); V., 323 (Aug. 17, 1816).]
5109 ([return])
[ Thibaudeau, p. 152 (Prairial 21, year X.]
5110 ([return])
[ Idem, IV.,259, (June 7 and 8, 1816).—Pelet de la Lozere, "Opinions de Napoléon au conseil d'état," p 223, (March 4, 1806).]
5111 ([return])
[ "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.">[
5112 ([return])
[ 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.">[