Word: napoleonism
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Throughout history, practical and pragmatic politicians from Caesar to Napoleon to Hitler have seen the need for a United Europe and welded large sections of that unhappy continent into unions imposed by force and sustained by fear. The occasional prophet who dared envision a Europe united, like Tennyson's "Parliament of man," in voluntary federation for the common good was condemned to brood alone in the Poets' Corner...
...faithful discipline. To hold that we are religious only when we feel religious is a most depressing heresy. We may safely wager that the saint never feels like a saint. To make the efficacy of prayer and goodness dependent upon 'feeling' is akin to a Napoleon on the eve of battle calling it all off till he feels more heroic. In His ninth hour, Jesus did not feel the Father near-'My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?'-but faith and obedience did not fail...
...subject, Stagg was born in South America and spent his boyhood on his family's Ecuadoran cocoa plantation, second largest in the world. His grandfather had come to South America as a British naval officer who was ordered to protect his expire's interest there after the defeat of Napoleon...
Last week Eudeline went back to the presidential palace to receive his reward. On Eudeline's chest, President Vincent Auriol pinned the white-enamel-and-silver cross of a chevalier of the Legion of Honor, founded in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte to honor those who, "by their knowledge, their virtues, their talent," have upheld the principles of the French Republic. He will be entitled to wear the inconspicuous red lapel ribbon, and will find special seats reserved for him at parades and other functions-joining the democratic company of the 196,146 Frenchmen who also have the Legion...
...those days, the library was only 41 years old-a private place of study, established by men like Thomas Carlyle who wanted something more convenient and less crowded than the British Museum. Mr. Cox never knew Mr. Carlyle; nor did he know such early readers as Napoleon III and Lord Macaulay. But he used to chat with Gladstone ("When you opened a door for him, he always raised his hat"), and he remembers Herbert Spencer struggling over his Principles of Sociology and Lord Granville queueing up for a book on the Irish Parliament...