Napoleon. Pensées. Paris, 1913. Bibliothèque Miniature No. 14

The excerpts from Napoléon’s book “Pensees,” Paris, 1913, Bibliotheque miniature No. 14 (Napoleon, Thoughts, Paris, 1913, Miniature Library No. 14) were made in Bern in 1915. They were entered at the bottom of the first page of the notebook containing the conspectus of Noël’s Hegel’s Logic. Note that this document has undergone special formating to ensure that Lenin’s sidenotes fit on the page, marking as best as possible where they were located in the original manuscript.

“Cannon killed feudalism. Ink will kill modern society (p. 43)....

— — — “In every battle there comes a moment when the bravest soldiers, after the greatest tension, feel inclined to take to flight. This terror arises from a lack of confi- dence in their courage: it needs only an insignificant event, some pretext, to return this confidence to them: the great art consists in bringing this about” (pp. 79-80).