The God of Clay (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The God of ClayThe men and women of whom I tell lived through the storm in which the old world passed: the Revolution that brought France liberty and the Terror and Napoleon. You know how the spirit of man, long cheated and chained, broke fiercely forth and swept the old tyrant powers away, and made France a clean land where free men could live, how, in the first of its strength, this new world force, half divine and all human, turned away from things as they are and gave ear to the pretty stories of sentimentalists and logicians, Marat and Robespierre and St. Just, till it was driven mad and wrought reasonless, ghastly havoc, till the glorious vision, a nation of free men and friends, ended in blood-smirched chaos. Then out of the chaos men cried, as ever men will, for order and law, whatever the cost. And there came Napoleon - the brain of a god and a mean man's heart. He brought them order. He wrought Frenchmen into such a weapon for mankind's conquest as the world had never known. He wielded it with a greedy, ruthless skill that dazzles and dazes yet. Never in any man else has dwelt such force as his. Of him, of men and women who loved him sometimes, I write here, how their lives crossed and clashed under the fool's tyranny of old France, amid the rushing, murderous, mad pageant of the Terror, and again, and yet again, when Napoleon had won power and glory and worship and hate and pity. Will you say which he most deserved?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.