             Letter from NAPOLEON THE GREAT to General Bertrand:       

DIVINE EFFECTS COMPEL ME TO BELIEVE IN A DIVINE CAUSE.  YES, THERE IS
A DIVINE CAUSE, A SOVERIEGN REASON, AN INFINITE BEING.  THAT CAUSE IS
THE CAUSE OF CAUSES...THERE EXISTS AN INFINITE BEING, COMPARED WITH
WHOM YOU, GENERAL, ARE BUT AN ATOM; COMPARED WITH WHOM I, NAPOLEON,
WITH ALL MY GENIUS, AM TRULY NOTHING; A PURE NOTHING.  I PERCEIVE
HIM--GOD.  I SEE HIM, HAVE NEED OF HIM, I BELIEVE IN HIM IF YOU DO
NOT BELIEVE IN HIM, WELL, SO MUCH THE WORSE FOR YOU.  BUT, YOU WILL,
GENERAL, YET BELIEVE IN GOD.  I CAN PARDON MANY THINGS, BUT I HAVE A
HORROR OF AN ATHEIST AND MATERIALIST... 

     THE GODS, THE LEGISLATORS OF INDIA AND OF CHINA, OF ROME, AND OF
ATHENS, HAVE NOTHING WHICH CAN OVERAWE ME...IT IS NOT SO WITH CHRIST.
EVERYTHING IN HIM ASTONISHES ME.  HIS SPIRIT OVERAWES ME, AND HIS
WILL CONFOUNDS ME.  BETWEEN HIM AND WHOEVER ELSE IN THE WORLD, THERE
IS NO POSSIBLE TERM OF COMPARISON.  HE IS TRULY BY HIMSELF.  HIS
IDEAS AND HIS SENTIMENTS, THE TRUTHS WHICH HE ANNOUNCES, HIS MANNER
OF CONVINCING, ARE NOT EXPLAINED EITHER BY HUMAN ORGANIZATION OR BY
THE NATURE OF THINGS.  HIS BIRTH, AND THE HISTORY OF HIS LIFE; THE
PROFUNDITY OF HIS DOCTRINE, WHICH GRAPPLES WITH THE MIGHTIEST
DIFFICULTIES, THE MOST ADMIRABLE SOLUTION; HIS GOSPEL...HIS MARCH
ACROSS THE AGES AND REALMS, EVERYTHING IS FOR ME A PRODIGY, A MYSTERY
INSOLUBLE, WHICH PLUNGES ME INTO A REVERIE FROM WHICH I CANNOT
ESCAPE, A MYSTERY IS THERE BEFORE MY EYES, A MYSTERY WHICH I CAN
NEITHER DENY NOR EXPLAIN...I SEARCH IN VAIN IN HISTORY TO FIND THE
EQUAL OF JESUS CHRIST.  (Quoted in Abbot's "Napoleon")
