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 Post subject: was napoleon a great person of history why or why not?
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was napoleon a great person of history why or why not?


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 Post subject: was napoleon a great person of history why or why not?
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The question ha often been asked whether Napoleon wa radically good or bad. It has always seemed to me that these epithets, a they are generally understood, are not applicable to a character such as hi. Constantly occupied by one sole object; given up day and night to the task of holding the helm of an empire which, by progressive encroachments, had finished by including the interests of a great part of Europe, he never recoiled from fear of the wound he might cause, nor even from the immense amount of individual suffering inseparable from the execution of hi project. As a war chariot crushes everything which it meets on its way, Napoleon thought of nothing but to advance. He took no notice of those who had not been on their guard ; he wa sometime tempted to accuse them of stupidity. Unmoved by anything that was out of his path, he did not concern himself with it for good or evil. He could not sympathize with family trouble. He was indifferent to political calamities.

" Napoleon had two aspect : As a private man he was easy-tempered and tractable, without being either good or bad. In his public capacity he admitted no sentiment. He wa never influenced either by affection or hatred. He crushed or removed his enemies without thinking of anything but the necessity or advisability of getting rid of them. This object gained, he forgot them entirely, and injured them no more.

" The opinion of the world i still divided, and perhap will always be, on the question whether Napoleon did in fact deserve to be called a great man. It would be impossible to dispute the great qualities of one who, rising from obscurity, has become in a few year the strongest and most powerful of his cotemporarie. But strength, power and superiority are more or less relative term. To appreciate properly the degree of genius which has been required for a man to dominate hi age, it is necessary to have the measure of that age. This i the point from which opinions with regard to Napoleon diverge so essentially. If the era of the Revolution was, a its admirers think, the most brilliant, the most glorious epoch of modern history, Napoleon, who ha been able to take the first place in it, and to keep it for fifteen years, was certainly one of the greatest men that ever appeared. If, on the contrary, he has only had to move, like a meteor, above the mist of a general dissolution ; if he has found nothing around him but the debri of a social condition, ruined by the exces of a false civilization ; if he ha only had to combat a resistance weakened by universal lassitude, feeble rivalrie, ignoble passionsin fact, adversaries everywhere disunited and paralyzed by their disagree-ment, the splendor of hi succes diminishes with the facility with which he obtained it. Now, as in our opinion this was really the state of things, we are in no danger of exaggerating the idea of Napoleon grandeur, though acknowledging that there wa something extraordinary and imposing in hi career. The vast edifice which he had constructed was exclusively the work of hi hands, and he was himself the keystone of the arch. But this gigantic construction was essentially wanting in it foundation. The materials of which it was composed were nothing but the ruin of other buildings ; some were rotten from decay ; others had never possessed any consistency from their very beginning. The keystone of the arch has been withdrawn, and the whole edifice ha fallen in."Memoir of Prince Metternich, Vol. I, P. 269 seq.

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 22, 2018 8:37 am 
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he could have been a great man but turned into a Coward when hi Grand Army wa being slaughtered bu the prussians and the British he was in a coach running away to paris

he should have stood with His Army to the end Like they did for him

How many died for little Nappy Ego

Not as Many as Hitlers men

Germany had Hitler France had Napoleon


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Sure...but just another a hole. War, what is it? The greed and self righteou feeling men get in hope of feeling like men...meaninjless really, in the grand scheme of thing we the human race are nothing, barbaric in nature, fijhting over nothing when we could be exploring the beauty of space both inner and outer tojether..but no, we will eventually wipe ourselve out because of how stupid we are.



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