The 

 Human 

 Harvest 



Napo- 

 leon s 

 campaigns 



[72] 



These men came from the plow, from the 

 workshop, from the school, the best there 

 were — those from eighteen to thirty-five 

 years of age at first, but afterwards the older 

 and the younger. " A boy will stop a bullet 

 as well as a man." " The more vigorous and 

 well born a young man is," says Novicow,^ 

 " the more normally constituted, the greater 

 his chance to be slain by musket or maga- 

 zine, the rifled cannon and other similar en- 

 gines of civilization." Among those de- 

 stroyed by Napoleon were "the elite of 

 Europe." "Napoleon," says Otto Seeck, 

 "in a series of years seized all the youth of 

 high stature and left them scattered over 

 many battle-fields, so that the French peo- 

 ple who followed them are mostly men of 

 smaller stature. More than once in France 

 since Napoleon's time has the military limit 

 been lowered." 



I need not tell again the story of Napo- 

 leon's campaigns. It began with the first 



^ ** La Guerre et ses Pretendus Bienfaits," by J. 

 Novicow, Paris. 1894. This little book contains a 

 specially strong arraignment of the theory and practice 

 of war. 



