I56 GREAT MEN OF THE WORLD. 



lating 80,000 Russians with his 8,000 Swedes, his insane big- 

 headedness would not allow him to utilize the advantage this 

 victory gave him. When a semi-prisoner in Turkey he had the 

 effrontery to tell his Parliament he would send one of his boats 

 to Sweden to preside at the sittings of the nation's elect; with 

 three hundred, afterwards with fifteen, soldiers he undertook to 

 declare war against Turkey, and when finally he returned to Sweden 

 he tried to force his notions upon Russia. 



"From a warrior and statesman, Napoleon became the greatest 

 megalomaniac the world ever produced. When master of Europe 

 he essayed to conquer India and Asia, and of necessity failed in 

 an undertaking which was far too tremendous for the capabilities 

 of one nation and one individual. Napoleon used to say, 'Europe 

 is but a small mole-hill. Great empires can only be founded in 

 the Orient, where 600,000,000 of people live. There one may exe- 

 cute great reforms.' When he formulated these ideas Napoleon 

 was clearly a megalomaniac; his genius had degenerated into 

 insane big-headedness. Taine was right when he said of him that 

 he regarded the world as a great picnic, where the man having 

 the longest arms fared best. He used the dignitaries of the crown 

 and his generals as flunkies, and as his big-headedness increased 

 treated other monarchs and their ministers in the same fashion. 

 The unthinking may judge him, for that reason, a great man, 

 notwithstanding the fact that the glory of this megalomaniac 

 was bought by the lives of millions, at the cost of two invasions 

 of foreign armies, while resulting in France's utter downfall. 

 These were the consequences of Napoleon's political activity and 

 the fruits of egotism which had 'genius' for handmaid." 



This is what Prof. Lombroso has to say of one man out of each 

 of our last three groups, and the same remarks apply by implication 



