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Excerpt from The Modern Regime, Vol. 1
I. Great men 01? The italian renaissance and or the present Tina - Intensity of the passions in Bonaparte. - His impulsive sensi bility. - Violent outbursts - His impatience, readiness, and need of expressing himself. - His temperament, nervous system, and sinking fits. - II. Bonaparte's dominant passion. - His lucid, calculating mind. - Source and power of the Will. - Early evidences of an active, ah sorbing egoisrn.-his education derived from the lessons of things. In Corsica - In France during the Revolution. - In Italy. - In Egypt. - His idea of Society and of Right. - Maturing after the 18th of Brumaire. - His idea of Mam - It conforms to his character. - III. His mastery of the will of others - Degree of submission required by him. - His mode of appreciating others and of profiting by them - Tone of command and of conversation. - IV. His bearing in Society. - His deportment toward women. - His disdain of Politeness. - V. His tone and bearing toward Sovereigns. - His Policy. - His means and ends. - After Sovereigns he sets populations against him - Final opinion of Europe. - VI. Inward principle of his outward deportment. - The State subordinated to him instead of his subordination to the State. Efiects of this - His work merely a life-interest. - It is ephemeral. Injurious. - The number of lives it cost. - The mutilation of France. - Vice of construction in his European edifice - Analogous vice in his.
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