Excerpt from The House of White Shadows: A Novel The feverish state Of excitement into which Geneva was thrown was not caused by a proclamation Of war, a royal visit, a social revolution, a religious wave, or an avalanche. It was simply that a man was on his trial for murder. There is generally in Geneva a rational if not a philosophic foundation for a social upheaving unlike the people Of most other countries, the population do not care to play a blind game of follow my leader. They prefer to think for them selves, and their leaders must be men of mark. Intellect is passionately welcomed; pretenders find their proper level. 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.