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This Introduction was published in the Swiss newspapers in December, 1917, with an episode of the novel and a note explaining the original title, _L'Un contre Tous_. "This somewhat ironical name was suggested--with a difference--by La Boëtie's _Le Contr' Un_; but it must not be supposed that the author entertained the extravagant idea of setting one man in opposition to all others; he only wishes to summon the personal conscience to the most urgent conflict of our time, the struggle against the herd-spirit."] This book is not written about the war, though the shadow of the war lies over it. My theme is that the individual. | Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents 1 Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents The Project Gutenberg EBook of Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents by Theodore Roosevelt This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Section 2 of 2 of Supplemental Volume Theodore Roosevelt Supplement Author Theodore Roosevelt Release Date October 29 2004 EBook 13891 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THEODORE ROOSEVELT Produced by Juliet Sutherland David Garcia and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team. A COMPILATION OF THE MESSAGES AND PAPERS OF THE PRESIDENTS BY JAMES D. RICHARDSON Theodore Roosevelt September 14 1901 Messages Proclamations and Executive Orders to the end of the Fifty-seventh Congress First Session Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt the twenty-seventh President of the United States was born in the city of New York October 27 1858. His ancestors on the paternal side were of an old Knickerbocker family and on the maternal side of Scotch-Irish descent. He was educated at home under private tuition and prepared for matriculation into Harvard where he was graduated in 1880. He spent the year of 1881 in study and travel. During the years 1882-1884 he was an assemblyman in the legislature of New York. During this term of service he introduced the first civil service bill in the legislature in 1883 and its passage was almost simultaneous with the passage of the Civil Service Bill through Congress. In 1884 he was the Chairman of the delegation from New York to the National Republican Convention. He received the nomination for mayor of the city of New York in 1886 as an Independent but was .