Excerpt from Napoleon: The Fall Had Napoleon never lived, had his strenuous indi viduality been substituted by a tamer tmm events, had the space in history which his vast entity dis places been filled up instead by less stirring events than' those which have signalled his career, had, the dawn of the 19th century not witnessed the exploits of one even greater than Alexander, and in short not enabled us to gauge to' what a pre-eminence - to what illimitable supremacy the human intellect can attain, what a void would have remained in history to be filled. What sterility would have existed in man's conception of human genius, of human possibilities! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.