1809. ] 
Without wishing to anticipate the mea- 
sures which the wisdom of your Majesty 
is preparing for the public education, we 
have taken the liberty of submitting to 
you some ideas for regulating the first 
instruction in the natural sciences; and 
for diffusing more widely through the 
country, technological, and agricultural 
knowledge. We have also proposed to 
you to order the arrangement of a new 
system of the natural beinys; the science 
requires this labour; our country is that, 
in which it may be executed with the 
greatest facility; and it would be grand 
te see the name of Napoleon, already 
placed at the head of so many great mu- 
numents, of so many wise laws, of so 
roany useful institutions, decorating like- 
wise the frontispiece of a fundamental 
work. Ofall the establishments, of all 
the labours ordered by Alexander, the 
history of animals, by Aristotle, is the 
only one subsisting, as an eternal testi- 
mony of the love of this great prince for 
the natural sciences. A word from your 
Majesty, may create a work, which would 
surpass, in extent, that of Aristotle, as 
much as your actions surpass, in splendor, 
those of the Macedonian conqueror. | 
But of all the excicements to emulati- 
on, the principal will always be, Sire, the 
honourab!e benevolence which you conde- 
scend to manifest in favour of our exerti- 
ons; and the hope, that some of our la- 
bours may be quoted in the history of 
your reign, amongst the number of prodi- 
gies with which your yenius has sur- 
rounded you. Such is for the future. 
the only wish that can be formed by 
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those who have the happiness of be- 
ing your contemporaries, Whe establish. 
ments which you have either founded or 
restored, insure to’ them an honourable 
subsistence; your munificence removes 
from them every solicitude respecting 
their old age; it offers to them, on all 
sides, means for labour and experiments; 
what inducement could be wanting to 
them under a prince, who deigns to inter- 
est himself in their researches; to call 
them around him, and to recompense 
their success with his personal approba-= 
tion? 
The Emperor’s Answer. 
Gentlemen, presidents, secretaries, 
and deputies of the first class of the In- 
stitute. Le 
I desired to hear your report on the 
progress of the human mind during these 
last years, in order that what you might 
have to state, may be heard by all nations, 
and reduce to silence the detractors of 
our age, who, endeavouring to cause the 
human mind to retrograde, seem to have 
for their end the extinction of it. 
I wished to know what remained for 
me to do, in order to encourage your 
labours, and to console myself, for not 
having it in my power any longer to con- 
tribute otherwise to their success. The 
good of my people, and the glory of my 
throne, are equally interested in the pros- 
perity of the sciences. 
My minister of the home department, 
will report to me on your demands: you 
may rely constantly on the effects of my 
protection. 
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