Excerpt from The Common Faith of Common Men
There have been two men from Macedonia who have left their mark on the world"s history. One was Alexander, the man of blood and iron, who led the hosts of the new world, the forces of the Greek peoples, against the tottering monarchies of the East. He mightily avenged the Greeks who fell before Persian hosts at Thermopylae, at Marathon, at Salamis and Plataea. He put an end forever to the dream of an eastern conquest of Europe. Dying at thirty-three years of age he has become in the world the type of the victorious soldier. But tradition tells us that he died in disillusionment and despair. So his life has passed into a proverb, and we say of sighing though sated life that it is like to the life of Alexander who wept for more worlds to conquer.
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