British historian Andrew Roberts stated, "The ideas that underpin our modern world—meritocracy, equality before the law, property rights, religious toleration, modern secular education, sound finances, and so on—were championed, consolidated, codified and geographically extended by Napoleon. To them he added a rational and efficient local administration, an end to rural banditry, the encouragement of science and the arts, the abolition of feudalism and the greatest codification of laws since the fall of the Roman Empire."[11]
[11] Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life (2014), p. xxxiii.
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Myself, I would have passed him over as just another muscle-mystic, like George Washington, but, when you read about the man, it is obvious that he was deep.