_ BOOK VIII. PROGRESS CONTAINED IN THE COUP D'ETAT
VII. THE FORM OF THE GOVERNMENT OF GOD
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself.
Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
When they have weighed sufficiently long upon men, Providence, like the sultan to his viziers, sends them the bowstring by a mute, and they execute themselves.
Louis Bonaparte is the mute of Providence. _