. A life of Napoleon Boneparte:. their might and perfection. It is only a genius of themost magnificent order which could handle men and ma-terials as Napoleon did. He is even more imposing as a statesman. When oneconfronts the France of 1799, corrupt, crushed, hopeless,false to the great ideals she had wasted herself for, andwatches Napoleon firmly and steadily bring order into thischaos, give the country work and bread, build up her brokenwalls and homes, put money into her pocket and restore hercredit, bind up her wounds and call back her scattered chil-dren, set her again to painting pictu
. A life of Napoleon Boneparte:. their might and perfection. It is only a genius of themost magnificent order which could handle men and ma-terials as Napoleon did. He is even more imposing as a statesman. When oneconfronts the France of 1799, corrupt, crushed, hopeless,false to the great ideals she had wasted herself for, andwatches Napoleon firmly and steadily bring order into thischaos, give the country work and bread, build up her brokenwalls and homes, put money into her pocket and restore hercredit, bind up her wounds and call back her scattered chil-dren, set her again to painting pictures and reading books,to smiling and singing, he has a Napoleon greater than thegeneral. Nor were these civil deeds transient. France to-day islargely what Napoleon made her, and the most liberal in-stitutions of continental Europe bear his impress. It is onlya mind of noble proportions which can grasp the needs of apeople, and a hand of mighty force which can supply them. But he was greater as a man than as a warrior or states-. WAX CAST OF THE FACE OF NAPOLEON. MADE AT ST. HELENA IN iSjI, BY DR. ARNOTT. 2Q2 NAPOLEONS SURRENDER TO ENGLAND 293 man; greater in that rare and subtle personal quality whichmade men love him. Men went down on their knees andwept at sight of him when he came home from Elba—roughmen whose hearts were untrained, and who loved naturallyand spontaneously the thing which was lovable. It wasonly selfish, warped, abnormal natures, which had been sti-fled by etiquette and diplomacy and self-interest, who aban-doned him. Where nature lived in a heart. Napoleons swaywas absolute. It was not strange. He was in everythinga natural man; his imagination, his will, his intellect, hisheart, were native, untrained. They appealed to unworldlymen in all their rude, often brutal strength and they awed them, they won them. This native force of Napoleon explains, at least partially,his hold on men; it explains, too, the contrasts of his char-acter. Never was
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