Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Open Letter to the Nation With Regard to a Peace Plan
When crowds have come, as the result of changes of belief, to acquire a profound antipathy for the images evoked by certain words, the first duty of the true statesman is to change the words. - Gustave Le Bon.
The work of the consulate and the empire consisted more particularly in the clothing with new words of the greater part of the institutions of the past - De Tocqueville.
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