Napoleon carried on warfare under a sterner and more self-reliant code.  He had confidence in and depended on his own genius and on nature’s laws.  There are shoals of instances in his short and terrific career that indicate this belief in himself.  He said to a regiment of horse chasseurs at Lobenstein two days before the battle of Jena, “My lads! you must not fear death; when soldiers brave death, they drive him into the enemy’s ranks.”  On another occasion he said:  “You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you teach him all your art of war.”  This is a thrilling truth which always tells in war, and yet behind all the apparent indifference to the great mysterious force that holds sway over human affairs there was a hidden belief in the power of the Deity to guide aright and give aid in the hour of need, even to men of unequalled talents like Napoleon himself.  His spontaneous exclamations indicate that he did not doubt who created and ruled the universe, but how much he relied on this power he never really disclosed, and it can only be a supposition gathered from utterances recorded by some of his contemporaries that he had a devout belief in the great power of Christianity.  “Ah!” said he one day, “there is but one means of getting good manners, and that is by establishing religion.”  At that time the spiritual life of France was at a low ebb, and the subject of religion was one of the most unpopular and risky topics to raise, but Napoleon knew that it would have to be tackled in the open sooner or later, and it is a matter of authentic history that he struggled to bring and ultimately succeeded in bringing back religious ordinances to France.  He declared that no good government could exist for long without it.  His traducers proclaimed him an atheist, and we hear the same claptrap from people now who have not made themselves acquainted with the real history of the man and his times.  We do not say he was a saint, but he was a better Christian, both in profession and action, than most of the kings that ruled prior to and during his period.  In every way he excels the Louis of France, the Georges of Great Britain and Hanover, the Fredericks of Prussia, and the Alexanders of Russia.  The latter two he puts far in the shade, both as a statesman, a warrior, and a wise, humane ruler who saw far into futurity, and fought against the reactionary forces of Europe, which combined to put an end to what was called his ambition to dominate the whole of creation.  He foretold with amazing accuracy that from his ashes there would spring up sectional wars for a time, and ultimately the selfsame elements of vicious mediocrity that destroyed him would bring about a world-conflict which would destroy itself.