Then, in words that recall Juvenal's satire on Hannibal's career, he continues: "What is Alexander doing when he rushes from Thebes into Persia and thence into India?
He is ever restless, he loses his wits, he believes himself God.

What is the end of Cromwell?
He governs England.

But is he not tormented by all the daggers of the furies ?"--The words ring false, even for this period of Buonaparte's life; and one can readily understand his keen wish in later years to burn every copy of these youthful essays.

But they have nearly all survived; and the diatribe against ambition itself supplies the feather wherewith history may wing her shaft at the towering flight of the imperial eagle.[15] At midsummer he is transferred, as first lieutenant, to another regiment which happened to be quartered at Valence; but his second sojourn there is remarkable only for signs of increasing devotion to the revolutionary cause.

In the autumn of 1791 he is again in Corsica on furlough, and remains there until the month of May following.