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Excerpt from Power and Liberty: Translated From the French Perhaps we shall not be far wrong if we see, in the essay on Power and Liberty a bear ing on the present condition of the people to which the author belongs. The Nation, in a thoughtful review of Napoleon and the Rus sian Campaign, suggests that some of the obvious exaggerations of that book have a political significance; the Opinion is one that may be commended to readers of this later volume. Surely both books have in them the ground-swell of humanity, the aspiration for freedom, and the cry that voices this aspiration is indeed a cry from the depths. Whether we listen sympathetically and try to understand, or whether we turn aside and denounce the plea as idle and vain, will largely depend, I should think, on our sense of justice, and our sense of the essential nobility of manhood for there are people who know, or may know if they will. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.