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 Stamp. — Overdriving. — The Education of Character.— Schools for Girls. — University Revival. — Students and Pro- fessors. — The Rights of the State. A New Spectacle. — Patriotism throughout the Ages. — Its Modern Formula. — Contradictory Problems. — A Work of Perseverance and of Confidence. — The Eifect on the Nation. — Officers and Soldiers. — Diverging Tendencies. — A Social- istic Lesson in Things. — Ideal and Patriotism. The Survival of Ideas. — Foreign Judgments on France. — The Worship of Form. — Unhealthy Scientific and Literary Stagnation. — Influence of Democracy on Letters and Lan- guage. — The Awakening : Taine and Renan. — Retaliation on Immorality. — The French Family and the French Woman. — Decrease of Population. — The Law of Succession, and Malthusianism. Errors of Valuation. — An Unprecedented Experience. — Universal and Simultaneous Progress. — Political Action: Congress and Elections. — Strikes. — Anarchists. — Intellec- tual Mediums. — Obstacles: Petty Proprietorship. — Alle- manists, Broussists, Guesdists, Blanquists. — Syndicates. — A Second Night of August i.