Scott Foster
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 7 Aug
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I used it as the base and the root.
It was in my eyes the support of good morality, of true principles, of good manners.
I am assuredly far from being an atheist, but I cannot believe all that they teach me in spite of my reason under penalty of being deceitful and hypocritical.
To say whence I come, what I am, where I go, is above my ideas.
And nevertheless all that is, I am the watch which exists and does not know itself.
No doubt, he continued, but my spirit of mere doubt was, in my quality of emperor, a benefit for the people.
Otherwise, how could I equally favor sects so contrary if I had been dominated over by one alone?
How could I preserve the independence of my thoughts and of my movements under the suggestions of a confessor who could govern me by means of the fear of hell?
What an empire could not a wicked man, the most stupid of men, under that title of confessor, exercise over those who govern nations?
I was so penetrated with these truths that I preserved myself well to act in such a manner that inasfar as it lay in me, I would educate my son in the same religious lines in which I found myself.
Two months later the ex emperor said that from the age of thirteen he had lost all religious faith.
Theers says that when Napoleon intended to proclaim himself emperor, he wished to give the Masons a pledge of his principles, and that he did this by killing the Duke Dang.
He said They wish to destroy the revolution in attacking it in my person.
I will defend it, for I am the revolution.
I myself I myself.
They will so consider it from this day forward, for they will know of what we are capable.
A less brave but still more accomplished relative of his Napoleon III, in his Ede Napoleon, says
The revolution dying but not vanquished left to Napoleon the accomplishments of its last designs, enlightened the nations it would have said to him Place upon solid basis the principal result of our efforts, execute and extent that which I have done in depth.
Be for Europe what I have been for France, that grand mission Napoleon accomplished even to the end.
When Napoleon obtained power, it was, we know, principally by means of the illuminated Freemason Talleyrand.
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