No general outline of history, however sketchy, would be complete without a tribute to that capricious, whimsical, tragic little god that the glamorous ages of mythology gave us: CUPID—god of love.
Nor may any outline of history be written without tracing the effect of this dynamic emotion upon the lives of men, of dynasties, of empires.
Love of power, love of wealth, love of glory, love of woman or man. In these broad human terms are the flaming pages of history written.
On the darker pages of the book, the byproducts of love—malice, envy, hatred, cruelty, avarice, jealousy, suspicion—recorded in blood and fire and war; that ceaseless struggle of man in his pilgrimage from obscurity to a place in the sun.
