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THE COLLECTED WORKS OF
AMBROSE BIERCE
VOLUME 1
1909
CONTENTS
ASHES OF THE BEACON
THE LAND BEYOND THE BLOW
THITHER
SONS OF THE FAIR STAR
AN INTERVIEW WITH GNARMAG-ZOTE
THE TAMTONIANS
MAROONED ON UG
THE DOG IN GANGEWAG
A CONFLAGRATION IN GHARGAROO
AN EXECUTION IN BATRUGIA
THE JUMJUM OF GOKEETLE-GUK
THE KINGDOM OF TORTIRRA
HITHER
FOR THE AHKOOND
JOHN SMITH, LIBERATOR
BITS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ON A MOUNTAIN
WHAT I SAW OF SHILOH
A LITTLE OF CHICKAMAUCA
THE CRIME AT PICKETT'S MILL
FOUR DAYS IN DIXIE
WHAT OCCURRED AT FRANKLIN
'WAY DOWN IN ALABAM'
WORKING FOR AN EMPRESS
ACROSS THE PLAINS
THE MIRAGE
A SOLE SURVIVOR
ASHES OF THE BEACON
ASHES OF THE BEACON
AN HISTORICAL MONOGRAPH WRITTEN IN 4930
Of the many causes that conspired to bring about the lamentable failure of
"self-government" in ancient America the most general and comprehensive
was, of course, the impracticable nature of the system itself. In the
light of modern culture, and instructed by history, we readily discern the
folly of those crude ideas upon which the ancient Americans based what
they knew as "republican institutions," and maintained, as long as
maintenance was possible, with something of a religious fervor, even when
the results were visibly disastrous.
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