[Children of the Market Place by Edgar Lee Masters]@TWC D-Link bookChildren of the Market Place CHAPTER I 9/11
They gave me understanding of Napoleon. What if he had sold the Louisiana territory to rebel America, and in order to furnish that faithless nation with power to overcome England in some future crisis? Perhaps this very moral governance that I was taught to believe in wished this to happen.
But if the World Spirit be nothing but the concurrent thinking of many peoples, as I grew to think, the World Spirit might irresistibly wish this American supremacy to be. And now at eighteen I am absorbed in dreams and studies at Oxford.
I have many friends.
My life is a delight.
I arise from sleep with a song, and a bound.
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