Volume 6 (of 6) by Hippolyte A. Taine]@TWC D-Link book Volume 6 (of 6) 57/61 All this correspondence reached him at Moscow as at the Tuileries."] [Footnote 6266: Faber, ibid. "Lying, systematically organized, forming the basis of government and consecrated in public acts,... the abjuring of all truth, of all personal conviction, is the characteristic of the administrators as presenting to view the acts, sentiments and ideas of the government, which makes use of them for scenic effect in the pieces it gives on the theatre of the world... The administrators do not believe a word they say, nor those administered."] [Footnote 6267: The following two confidential police reports show, among many others, the sentiments of the public and the usefulness of repressive measures. |