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History teaches us that the hour produces the man, yet if we are too addicted to the things of earth, if we have forgotten the diviner principles of righteousness, truth, and justice, then the man arises to our doom. The awful chaos of the French Revolution spawned forth after awhile its predestined figure of Napoleon. He brought the beginning of the end of the old feudal age in every European country wherein he fought but he brought it through a holocaust of misery, war, suffering, and bloodshed.

-- Notebooks Category 9: From Birth to Rebirth > Chapter 3 : Laws and Patterns of Experience > # 420