ABSTRACT
Egypt, Persia and even parts of the Punjab. Of Alexander personally, Russell had written: “No other fully historical hero has ever furnished such a perfect opportunity for the mythopoeic faculty” (1945, 221). Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) was viewed by Russell in much the same light, as exemplary of the influence that character and will alone could exert on history: “His ghost stalks through the age, the only force which is strong enough to stand up against industrialism and commerce, pouring scorn on pacifism and shop-keeping” (ibid., 750).
