A Man's World

ce, to tell what they are abo

bout myself-A

which I have written might better be called "Meditations." It certainly is not a "Novel," for that term implies a traditional "literary form," a beginning, development and end. I am quite sure that my beginning goes back to the primordial day when dead mat

ived and of the things-common-place and unusual-which happened

as been my main incentive in writing. We have text books a plenty on how to become Emperor, at least they tell how a man named Napoleon did it. There are endless volume

To be sure there were day-dreaming moments when we planned to explore Central Africa or found dynasties. But this was pure make-believe. We knew that not one man in thousands wins fame. For each moment we dreamed of greatness there were days on end when we lo

e of distinction, but all this was subordinate to a more definite desire to be a man, and not

ppears to me now, and how, in the face of the t

in narration. And I have been enough in courts to realize the difference between "evidence" and "truth." At best I can only give

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