Also by Claude de Saint-Martin.
See Quérard, French Literature original: "Fr. litt." referring to Joseph-Marie Quérard's "La France littéraire", Volume VIII, page 353.

REFLECTIONS

OF AN OBSERVER

THE QUESTION:

Which institutions are best suited

to establish the morality of a people?

Subject of the first prize of the class of moral and political sciences of the National Institute of France, for the 15 messidor the tenth month of the French Republican calendar, occurring in mid-summer of the year VI of the Republic July 3, 1798.

FOREWORD.

When reading the programs published by learned societies, certain minds are surprised to see these tribunals of human reason ask man himself for the torch they would need to enlighten him; as if it were