Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1910 — The Power of Napoleon. [ARTICLE]

The Power of Napoleon.

The desperate struggle to do something worth while is the Very thing which draws out our reserve forces and develops latent power, says Orison Swett Marden in Success Magazine. Without this struggle, many people would never have discovered their real selves. Napoleon was never so resourceful, never so levelheaded, never had that vigorous mental grasp, was never able to make such powerful combinations as when he was driven to desperation. It was when all bridges were burned behind him, and there was no possibility of retreat, that the possible Napoleon came to the rescue. Napoleon said of his great general, Massena, that he never showed his mettle until he saw the wounded and and dead falling all around him in battle; then the lion in him was aroused, and he fought like a demon.