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OF twenty years Of triumph becausehis gov
ernment was so modelled that with hi'n every
thing must be swept away, and that a reaction
proporoned to the violence Of the action must burst
forth at once both within and without. The mania
of conquest had reversed the state of things in Eu
rope; we, the eldest born of liberty and lndepen-
dence, sping our blood in the service OF roy
al passions against the cause of natons and out:ag
ed nations we're turning round upon US, more terri
BILE from being armed with the principles which we
had forsaken.


cat times, this immense mass Of passion which
he was accumulating against him, this multitud
Of avenglng arms ready to be raised, filled his an
bilious spirit with involuntary apprehensIons. Look
ing around him, he was alarmed to find himself sol
tary, and conceived the idea of Strengthening h
power by moderating it.-Then it was that n
thought OF creating hereditary peerage and re-
constructing his monarchy on more secure found'
tions. But Napoleon without illusion to tn
bottom of things. The nation, wholly and cor
tinually occupied in prosecuting the designs OF n
Chief had previously not had time to form any plan
for ITSELF The day on which it should have ceas
ed to be stunned by the din Of arms, it would have
called itself to account for its servile obedience l.
is BETTER thought he, for absolute prince to fight
foreign armies than to have struggles against the Ell


ergy of the citizens. Despotlsm had been organic


ed for making war war was continued to uphol


despotism. The die was cast ; France must eithe


conquer Europe, or Europe subdue France,
s Napoleon fell he fell, because, with the mel


of the nineteenth century, he attempted the wori


OF an Attila and Genghis Khan because he gay


the rens to an imagination directly contrary to tn


spirit of his age, with which, nevertheless, his reas


on was perfectly acquainted because be would no


pause on the day when he felt conscious OF his ina
bility to succeed. Nature has fixed boundary


beyond which extravagant enterprises cannot be cal


ri 10 a EmnecO
reached in Spain, and he overleaped il in Russia
Had he then escaped destruction, his nieAlble pre-
sumption would have caused him TO find elsewher
, Babylon and Moscow