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with royalism more royalist than the king ; one 

 of those philosophers of the school of the stagnants ! 

 His ideas were flowing only when he was at the head 

 of his company of the militia to hunt the Kepublicans, 

 whom, I must say, were not all saints, far from it ; but 

 brutal force is a poor way of civilizing men. Under 

 Louis Phillippe emeutes (mobs) were of daily occur- 

 rence. 



All these things did not help me to cherish my 

 native country, inasmuch as I had already adopted that 

 device : " Ubi Libertas ibi patria " " Where liberty 

 dwells, there is my country ;" and that country I con- 

 templated should be the United States of North Amer- 

 ica. With all such reflections maturing in my mind, 

 I determined to move onward ; so immediately I made 

 my preparations to leave my situation, and in a few 

 weeks I was in Paris on my way to Havre. Before 

 leaving Paris I stopped with a friend for a few days, 

 during which he took me to the " Sorbonne," one of 

 the oldest universities in he world, to attend a lecture 

 on botany by the LAST of the Jussieu (Adrien de Jus- 

 sieu), a family of savants. While there I met a great 

 many young students, lawyers, physicians and other 

 philosophers in embryo, who, when they understood I 

 was going to America, flocked around me and asked 

 me, without any ceremony, if I would send them spec- 



