Our people is not like yours in France, a reservoir of men and money from which one can draw as plentifully as one pleases.

It is such another inexhaustible reservoir that I wish to see created among us.

And one must begin at the bottom.

There must be schools everywhere, ignorance must be stamped out, brutishness and idleness must be fought with books, intellectual and moral instruction must give us the industrious people which we need if we are not to disappear from among the great nations.

And once again for whom, if not for the democracy of to-morrow, have we worked in taking possession of Rome?
And how easily one can understand that all should collapse here, and nothing grow up vigorously since such a democracy is absolutely absent.