no more is needed than the cold statement of the stages in that
great story, of the steps which conducted to the summit of the pyramid
only to be descended on the other side. Such a statement is itself the
sermon on an earthly glory that was almost unearthly in the vastness of
its aims and of its gains, and on a humiliation that restored humanity
to reason and reaffirmed the inexorable lesson. As the mere names of
battles on the commemorative arch appeal to the memories, the
ambitions, and the passions of a military race with a monumental
emphasis that is not to be rivalled by the painter or writer, so a few
simple words serve to contrast with a simplicity that is in itself a
pomp the crowns and the catastrophes of that amazing visitation.
"Corsica," "St. Helena," "Brumaire," "Moscow," "Toulon," {332}
"Waterloo." The chronicle of the great conqueror is written in little
in the names of two islands, two battles, and two towns.

[Sidenote: 1803-15--England's fear of Napoleon]

To Frenchmen, even to the Frenchmen who are most opposed to him,
Napoleon must always be an object for gratitude and for admiration.
The most passionate champion of the Bourbon lilies and the doctrine of
the divine right of kings cannot refuse to recognize that Napoleon
Bonaparte gave to France a greater military glory than she had ever
known or ever dreamed of before. The most devout disciple of the
principles of '89, the fieriest apostle of the Revolution that went
down into the dust before the cunning of Barras and the cannon of the
Corsican adventurer, is obliged to admit the splendid services that
Napoleon Bonaparte rendered to his adopted country. The one antagonist
confesses that the Napoleonic eagles flew with the length of flight and
the strength of wing of the Roman eagles. The other antagonist sees
with approval the Code Napoleon and the Order of the Legion of Honor,
the Simplon Road and the Canal of St. Quentin, the encouragement given
to arts, to letters, and to commerce, the reorganization of finance and
the reconstitution of the army. But to the average Englishman of that
time, and for long afterwards, Napoleon was first and last and always
the implacable enemy of Great Britain. From the day of Toulon to the
day of Waterloo, Bonaparte was the Big Bogey of England; always either
fighting against her openly or plotting against her secretly, always
guided by one purpose, always haunted by one hope--the conquest of a
country tha