The Moral Vision
        
        
          Keeping Calm in the Face of Adversity
        
        
          ~ 244 ~
        
        
          Napolean exploited the French troops’ old and
        
        
          sentimental loyalty to himself—that being his only
        
        
          mainstay—so can ordinary individuals take
        
        
          advantage of their enemies’ vulnerability in order to
        
        
          gain their point without the kind of confrontation
        
        
          which could be disastrous to both sides.