for it is not only a new system of tactics, but a profound exposition of the human heart. But as its language, and its doctrines are beyond the comprehension of dulness, bigotry, and imbecility, the sovereigns of Europe banished it from their courts, and it fell into the hands of Buonaparte, and he has used it, as might be expected, to their destruction.
Their fate may be lamented, but it cannot be commiserated. One ray of intellect might have saved them, but even that was wanting, and they fell. What, however, greatly surprises us is, that we should seem astonished at the rapidity and uniformity of the successes of Buonaparte. The contest has been between genius and dulness, between learning and ignorance,
He again enforces this doctrine in ch. 11 of the same work:
"Let no one despair of being able to do what so many others have done, for all men are born, live, and, die in the same manner, and consequently resemble each other."