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"ourn, these would under the circumstances, I am sure, be 1858.
he feelings and passions of Englishmen, aye, and probably Zr. 49.
2 even a stronger degree than they are now cherished in
France,»
Cobden would certainly have been the lest man in the
%orld $0 deny that there was another and historically truer
fersion of Napoleon's career than the version of the Napo-“onic
 Legend ; but his sound principle that masses of men
8%er accept either maxims or idols without something
3°nerons, rational, and worthy of our respect in the motives
"hich sanctioned their acceptance, drew him naturally to
‘hy interpretation of Napoleon’s position in the memory of
# fance, The interpretation, if it be not historically justilable,
 is at leash drewmstically true. It represents what
Pronchmen were thinking of; and civilization will have
ken one of its most enormous strides, when the citizens of
“ach nation do not shrink from the duty of doing justice to
"he better mind of every other.
The pamphlet winds up with Cobden’s invariable moral,
hat instead of lavishing interest on foreign nations who
“either seek nor need it, Englishmen will do better to turn
ei attention to the defects of their own social condition.
“Ihave travelled much,” he says, “and always with an eye
the state of the great majority, who everywhere constite
 the toiling base of the social pyramid; and I confess 1
“Ye arrived at the conclusion that there is no country
“here so much is required to be done before the mass of the
Pople become what it is pretended they are, what they
Ught to be, and what I trust they will yet be, as in
foglang» The justice, the resl patriotism, the hope, of
eso closing pages are all indeed admirable; and the illustra-00
 from the history of the Irish famine of the possibility of
“naling the soldier’s bravery and devotion in other fields
*esideg the field of battle. is one of the mosh striking passages