National education is proper only to free men it is they only who enjoy a collective existence and are truly bound by law. This love is his whole existence he sees nothing but the fatherland, he lives for it alone when he is solitary, he is nothing when he has ceased to have a fatherland, he no longer exists and if he is not dead, he is worse than dead. Every true republican has drunk in love of country, that is to say love of law and liberty, along with his mother’s milk. When first he opens his eyes, an infant ought to see the fatherland, and up to the day of his death he ought never to see anything else. It is education that must give souls a national formation, and direct their opinions and tastes in such a way that they will be patriotic by inclination, by passion, by necessity. CONSIDERATIONS ON THE GOVERNMENT OF POLAND
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