AMONG the eminent persons of the nineteenth
century, Bonaparte is far the best known and the
most powerful; and owes his predominance to
the fidelity with which he expresses the tone of
thought and belief, the aims of the masses of
active and cultivated men. It is Swedenborg's
theory that every organ is made up of homogene-
ous particles; or as it is sometimes expressed,
every whole is made of similars; that is, the lungs
are composed of infinitely small lungs; the liver,
of infinitely small livers; the kidney, of little
kidneys, &c. Following this analogy, if any man
is found to carry with him the power and affec-
tions of vast numbers, if Napoleon is France, if
Napoleon is Europe, it is because the people whom
he sways are little Napoleons.

In our society there is a standing antagonism
between the conservative and the democratic
classes; between those who have made their

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