All radiance of social beneficence emanates from science, literature, the arts, education. Create men, create men. Illuminate them so they may reflect warmth on you. Sooner or later the splendid issue of universal education will present itself with the irresistible authority of absolute truth, and then those who govern under the scrutiny of the French idea will have to make this choice: the children of France or the gamins of Paris, beacons in the light or will-o’-the-wisps in the dark.
