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Napoleon the First.

Napoleon the First
! History has not represented the first
Napoleon us he was III reality. Poets,
private secretaries, courtiers. cnthusi-
asts, enemies and clamorcrs ayedrawn
the portrait. We propose to examine
his character from the point ofyiew Of
psychologist and positiyist. Napoleon
was neither dark nor fair. He had
dark chestnut hair, eyes gray. COM
/ plexion Of pale brown, without any
red in it. and smooth skin. The
brain was large: the skull belonged TO
the largest development ever known.
His circulation was slow, the pulse
counting forty beats a minute; he per
spired little; and was inseusiblc alike
To heat and cold. hunger and thirst;
his chest Was prominent, and his limbs
well proportioned his height was five
feet two inches. OF sympathetic
temperament, he could support alike
excess ofphvsical and mental cXertion.
ltWaS constitution of granite. Warm
baths, coffee and strong wines restored
his circulation. His intellect WAS vast
and many-sided. applying itself TO de
tails and gcneralIzatIons; made up Of
prodigiouS memory that rapidly took
account of place, number and cause.
and the hearings of things. a genius,
in fine, eminently practical and posi-
twist. DISSEMINATION, An cXtraorIIna-
ry power of generalization, and a slug
gish temperament make mp this won
derful man; these qualities are the
sources of his greatness. lie was ia
talist. Events are brought about bv
power superior To human Will, he
said. There is neither good nor bad
in the world. The morality of an ac-
tion is to be Judged 10y lis cxpediency.
Religions are human institutions, sery-
ing as Il sort of vaccine Ia protect Us
against the lower superstitions, to be
defended. not III the interests Of socie-
". but in the interests Of the priests
Such WAS his creed. and he naturally
hated those who possessed higher
one. Consul. Emperor. prisoner, and
exile, he hated philosophy and philos-
ophers from first 10 last, and accused
them of the misfortuncs he had him
self brought upon F'ra7TC---vTT7Cz T77rTTZz'
Of the Russian expedition, the sore dis
content of the nation, and 50 on.-
They believe neither in myself nor
in my priests" he said, these metaphy-
sicians, speaking Of Il. Constant, l..
Chcnier. Guigucme and others, who
showed hostility tn the Coucorlat.
'-and are good for nothing bat 20 bc
thrown into a pond. = les nj CONNIE
une vcrmine sur rucS habits
1t was natural that being as he en-
inently was a mystilier Of the people.
dazzling them with charlantry and
words, he should fear and hate the
spirit of independence. Tacitus Was
a mere writer If romance, Gibbon n
brawlcr, because these two writers cX-
posed the crimes Of the Roman Empc.
-rors. Noltairc, RauSseuu. Nccher. dc
Stael. J. i. Say. Gall. Montlosicr. Raw
nouard. LcmercIcr. were equally hate
full TO him, rs were all writer's, ancient
and modern, who dared Ia think for
themselves. For the cxaItation &C
Casarism. he wanted the Roman his
tory to be written over again. and MAIN
tanned. a host of litcratugcs for that
purpose--Barere Nine. de GenIis.
Fierce. Montgaillard. FoulancS, Lace
pedes. &c. Authors Who yeuturci uron
criticism were either exiled or thrown
into prison. Foreign books aud Jour
mails were prohibited-and quite logi-
cally. Free thought treads down the
structure of falsehood and mvstiiica-
ton called Bonapartism. He loved
noise, movement. martial life. drums.
trumpets and the destruction of life
upon large scale. Though circum-
spect in no small degree, he revealed
this by once of his dispatches: ',Surunc
espace de lieue carree, 5000 10000
cadavres, ct 1000 a 5000 chcyaux tues:
tout celia await plus de relief sur un
fonds de neige." The East was the
land of his dreams. There life is moth
III lllClC. ~ use lii5 Wv ii Idlt2Nt8c,
"on pcut TRAVELLER All grand" 70 sum
up the characteristics of Napoleon. he
possessed one of the vastest intellects
ever known, owing such superiority to
his utter insensibility to impressions,
his sluggish temperament, his wonder
full faculty of combination and reason
ing; war was to him Il pastime; politics
Il personal affair only; he possessed
neither religious, moral, nor political
beliefs; he held the human race in pro-
found contempt and was the greatest
egotist ever known; Il man of prodigi-
Gus aptitude for knavery and mystif-
cation and for administrative power:
an intellectual giant, who caused the
retrogressiOn of France and of all Eu-
rope, and who possessed one of the
worst hearts that the history Of the
human race has disclosed. All lovers
Of progress ought to make a pilgrim
age to Waterloo once in their lives, not
to exult over the destruction of IL
French army but to contemplate the
spot where this great enemy of the hui
man race fell victim to his own ex-
cesseS.