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Excerpt from The Power Supreme: A Novel of Church and State in South America They are instructive, too, in that they demonstrate the value of a well-regulated social order and the security of a state founded on upright homes and honoured maternity. When the better social conditions are lacking, history shows there is no security for state or individual. Of all the men who told me of their adventures, not one stands out with such prominence in my memory as a half-breed guide named Joaquin, a man of giant strength, manly vigour, and keen intelligence, who had followed wild callings and engaged in revolutions bor dering on the Caribbean Sea from Central America, down through the coast of Colombia, and in Venezuela, but the exact locations in his story are purposely disguised. He was in middle life when he served me some time ago, and the account of him here given deals with the period shortly after our own Civil War. In attempting to tell his story as nearly as possible in his own words, I have sought to imitate the poetic recitative, which in the euphonious language of the Spanish Indian is so naturally fitting and harmonious. 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.