| 2. | It is a charge brought against an historical personage standing at the highest possible pinnacle of human power , as it were , in the focus where all the rays of history concentrated their blinding light upon him ; a personage subjected to the strongest influences of intrigue , deceit , flattery , and self - deception , inseparable from power ; a personage who felt himself at every moment of his life responsible for all that was being done in europe ; and a personage , not an invented character , but a live creature , like any other man , with his own personal idiosyncrasies , and passions and impulses towards goodness , beauty , and truth
其实质在于：亚历山大一世是一个处于人类权力可能达到的顶峰就像是处于夺目的历史光辉在他身上聚成的焦点上的历史人物。像他这样的人物，理应受到伴随权力而来的阴谋欺诈阿谀自欺的世上最强有力的影响像他这样的人物，在他一生中的每时每刻都感到自己应对欧洲所发生的一切负责。这个人物不是凭空虚构的，而是有血有肉的活人。 |
