Show Delilah and the Nicholas was not the first nor will he be he the last lost to yield up un Judgment and will Into the hands of of a a queenly and beautiful woman The motive of Samson and Delilah of the vale of Is a u scarlet thread that runs rums through all history And Empress Alexandra herself a hearted broken wo woman from the be beginning was led to the brink of ot the precipice by forces of tremendous and universal strength her passionate and morbid love for her Invalid son born after long waiting whose paIns were alleviated it would 8 seem peem em by magnetic force just as the fatal malady of the czars czar's father Cather Alexander III was H lightened h by the similar but more benign pow power r of Father John of Kronstadt her obstinate obstinate obstinate ob ob- ob- ob and unconverted devotion for forthe forthe forthe the land of her birth her passion for autocratic power Those are not vular vulgar vulgar gar ar or trivial motives they have swayed great souls through all his his- tor tory tory North North American Review |