Outlines of the world's history, ancient, mediæval, and modern, with special relation to the history of civilization and the progress of mankind .. . THE CONSULATE AND THE EMPIRE. 441 struggles waged in this period are no longer struggles ofthe kings with one another, but struggles be- fjfj|=°^|„°5tween the kings and the peoples. This fact alone served to work a complete change in the politics ofEurope. But, secondly, new problems of a political andsocial nature have arisen, such as the questions of democ-racy, of representative government, of national unity, of therights of labor, e
Outlines of the world's history, ancient, mediæval, and modern, with special relation to the history of civilization and the progress of mankind .. . THE CONSULATE AND THE EMPIRE. 441 struggles waged in this period are no longer struggles ofthe kings with one another, but struggles be- fjfj|=°^|„°5tween the kings and the peoples. This fact alone served to work a complete change in the politics ofEurope. But, secondly, new problems of a political andsocial nature have arisen, such as the questions of democ-racy, of representative government, of national unity, of therights of labor, etc. ; and these have made a wonderfulsttrring in the spirits of men. Third, The historic stage isenlarged to embrace the whole world, since, on the onehand,^new nations have arisen in distant and hitherto un-settled regions, and, on the other, the old lands of Asiaand Africa have shown a marked awakening, and haveagain begun to count for something in the worlds history,after lying dormant for ages. 360. The first of our topics is the career of Napoleon,because for fifteen years he was the great cen- xopic heretral figure not only in the hi
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