Volume 6 (of 6) by Hippolyte A. Taine]@TWC D-Link book Volume 6 (of 6) 55/61 .. Everybody was charmed with his grace and presence of mind."-- Faber, "Notices sur l'interieur de France," p.25. "I know of a tolerably large town which could not light its lamps in 1804, on account of having sent its mayor to Paris at the expense of the commune to see Bonaparte crowned."] [Footnote 6263: Taine here explains the method which was to be copied by all the totalitarian leaders of the 20th century, especially by the ever present communist-socialist-revolutionary organizations and their more or less hidden leaders. (SR.)] [Footnote 6264: Lenin, Stalin and their successors must all have found this idea interesting and did also proceed to put much of the media in the world under their control. (SR.)] [Footnote 6265: Faber, ibid., p. |