Dreyfus; The Prisoner of Devil´s Island
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Excerpt from Dreyfus; The Prisoner of Devil´s Island: A Full Story of the Most Remarkable Military, Trial and Scandal of the Age The case of Alfred Dreyfus is the most remarkable episode of modem times. It is an incident of its own kind, without an antecedent and without a parallel. Superficially it seems to be an imbroglio of what Carlyle would call "despicable personalities"; but under the surface are playing some of the most powerful forces of human history. The fact is, that the real causes of this strange outbreak and upheaval in France are as universal as the present political constitution of the world, and as old as the flight of Abraham from Ur of the Chaldees. The echo of the Dreyfus case has been heard as far as the confines of civilization. The headlines have been cried in Tokio and Buenos Ayres. The name of this Franco-Hebrew captain has been spoken and his fate discussed by the trappers of the Yenisei, by the Peruvian silver miners, by the alcaldes of Guatemala, by the priests of Thibet, and by the gamblers of Monte Carlo. Every cabinet, every ministry, from that of Calcutta to that of The Hague, has felt the vibrations and weighed the consequences of the case of Dreyfus. Every monarch of Asia has taken time to learn at least the pronunciation of the name of the prisoner of Devil´s Island. Every schoolboy from Siberia to Texas has heard something of the trial of Dreyfus, and of Zola and Esterhazy. As a result of the thousands of columns printed about this cause cèlebre, the ordinary mortal has floundered about in a sea of doubt and speculation. Unable to afford the time to follow carefully all the exciting developments in the drama, the average man or woman has had to be content with getting a glimpse, now and then, of the actors on the stage, or of the doings behind the scenes. Meanwhile, both men and nations have looked forward to the time when a calming of the swiftly whirling waves might enable the interested mind to sift the true from the false in the turbulent whirlpool of news. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
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