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The history of almost every nation tells of some great transaction peculiar to that nation, something which aptly illustrates the particular characteristics of the people, and proclaims, as we may say, the part in human nature which that nation was to ex

Carrying on this idea to the history of our system, if the other worlds around us are peopled with beings not essentially unlike ourselves, there may be among them many Alexanders, Caesars, and Napoleons: the ordinary routine of conquest may be common p

Arthur Helps. 1856

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