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return to the old way is out of the question: the old faith is shattered,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and so an explanation must be found of the meaning of power.Napoleon commanded an army to be raised,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and to march out to war. This conception is so familiar to us,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], we are so accustomed to this idea that the question why six hundred thousand men go out to fight when Napoleon utters certain words seems meaningless to us. He had the power, and so the commands he gave were carried out.This answer is completely satisfactory if we believe that power has been given him from God. But as soon as we do not accept that,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it is essential to define what this power is of one man over others.This power cannot be that direct power of the physical ascendency of a strong creature over a weak one, that ascendency based on the application or the threat of the application of physical force鈥攍ike the power of Hercules. Nor can it be based on the ascendency of moral force, as in the simplicity of their hearts several historians suppose, maintaining that the leading historical figures are heroes鈥攖hat is, men endowed with a special force of soul and mind called genius. This power cannot be based on the ascendency of moral force; for, to say nothing of historical heroes, like Napoleon, concerning whose moral qualities opinions greatly differ, history proves to us that neither Louis XI. nor Metternich, who governed millions of men, had any marked characteristics of moral force, but that they were, on the contrary, in most resp
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