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| solemn shakes Of the head, while an old
prophecy was recalled to memory. For
| ii had been foretold that in the day when
chaos and wickedness should fill the
rise to restore the empire to its ancient
authority and to establish universal
peace.
| After Francis had reigned only a dozen
years. the new Charlemagne in the per-
| son of Napoleon appeared at the tomb
| Of the first Charlemagne in AK la Chap
pelle and assumed the fulfllment of the
prediction. Within a year of his cOro-
nation he fought with his rival Emperor
the duel off Austerlitz. where the van
quished Francis resigned to the victor
the crown of the Caesars Napoleon
| thereupon gathered all the states OF
South Germany beneath his protecting
sword.
Prussia dared challenge this new i'm
perial overload of Germany and she paid
| for her temerity at Jena. In seven days
| the French Emperor crushed the king
dom of Frederick. but when the SHOWS
queror consented to restore to the Prus-
sian sovereign half of the conquered
kingdom.
often Napoleon regretted even that
measure of magnanimity to Frederick
William III. exclaiming as he looked on
the map. why did leave that fellow in
possession of all that territory" Still.
Berlin remained for seven years virtually
project
All the while Napoleon really was n
blessing in disguise; When he formed
the cornerstone of united Germany.
When he freed the serfs. when he opened
the land to peasant ownership. when he
imposed principles of the Code Napoleon
on the nearly twenty states in his con-
federation. he laid the foundations of
modern Germany.
h.
the mission entrusted to him by the Rev
olution. his eNtortion and oppression
awakened among the divided people a
national spirit that drew all Germans to-
first time I'm centuries. II not in the whole
history of the race. II there he SUPER
abunance of blood and iron in the Ger
man system today. It may not be attribu-
table in the first instance so much to Bis
marck as to the heavy drafts admins
tered by Napoleon between 1906 and 1913.
Germany's Temple of War.
The latter year is the 17TS of the Ger
man people. On the centenary of that
Year of Liberation a rejoicing multitude
gathered about the Kaiser as he dedi-
Gated a huge mountain of concrete, a
German pyramid. which rises at the
edge of twentieth century LEIPZIG, on
the field of Napoleon's overthrow. In
letters six feet high. God With U.s. is
carved above the portal Of that temple
of war: but. notwithstanding that con-
fident assertion of omnipotent assist
ance. n gigantic efflEy of the German
Michael stands guard. with a dozen
giants clutching their war clubs and
terrifying group of furies holding aloft
flaming torches of destruction.
That great cairn on the battlefield of
the nations surely is no cote for the
dove of peace. but a massive tabernacle
and fortress of the sword and the mailed
fist. In front of the big monument is 4
little memorial. on top OF which a three
cornered hat is cut In marble. with a
sword resting on a marble pillow Be-
meath them these lines are chiseled:
The Lord
Is a Man OF War
The Lord
Is His Name.
Simply that and nothing more. But
the story is told plainly enough by the
cooked hat and the sword and those ex-
ultant words of Moses when the Lord
had cast into the Red Sea the chariots
and hos; and chosen captains of Pha-
raohs and the depths had covered them.
The name of the Corsican Pharaoh
would be superf1uous.
The immediate cause of German dis
union which afflicted the country
through so many centuries. was not in
the people themselves but in the lack of
q powerful leader. Until the rise Of
Prussia under Frederick the Great. no