Napoleon.

Among individual men of modern times none strikes the imagina­tion as does Napoleon. Without ignoring the tremendous outburst of the soul of down-trodden France at the Revolu­tion, it cannot be denied that the “character” or grey matter of brain of the man of whom it is said “nothing where he had passed was as it had been before,” was the dominant and natural fact that changed the face of Europe. What physical quality had Napoleon, except those of his grey cells, which could have led him to such results on the environment into which he was cast?