Chapter 1600 Son of God Abandoned (3)

  The Secret Room Rare Book Store run by Michelle Waukelson Stanwood from Baltimore is located next door to a flower shop.

It is not only an office, but also his residence and storage room. The books on the shelves are not commodities. The rare books he sells are stored in a room with a certain insurance function and no light transmission. After receiving Zhan After Luca's email, Stanwood had sorted out all the manuscripts he could collect, and placed it in front of Severus.

   "Are you sure you don't want to read the letter written by Marie Antoinette? As far as I know, many people are collecting it." Stanwood said.

   "No, thank you." Severus quickly flipped through the yellowed letter paper protected with resin.

  Stanwood didn’t know what to say for a while, so Gonsey asked, “How did you think of coming to Paris to develop?”

   "There are only politicians in Washington, can you believe it? In order to cut expenses, they actually plan to use a paperless office." Stanwood said angrily, "If they can build two fewer missiles, this money can be saved."

   "I thought it was for environmental protection." Felix said with a malicious smile.

  "Environmental protection, oh, speaking of this, I have another collection." Stanwood said disdainfully, and then quickly took a piece of paper in a wooden box from the secret room.

   "What is this?" Gonsai asked.

   "The "Declaration of Independence" drafted by President Jefferson, the unpublished version." Stanwood said triumphantly, "There is a lot of exciting content in it."

  "Should this thing be kept in the National Archives of the United States?" Crimean asked.

  Gon Saiyi was curious and leaned forward:

He launched a cruel war on human nature itself, deprived of the most sacred life and freedom of a distant people who had never offended him, captured and trafficked them to another hemisphere as slaves, or caused them to suffer in transit. A tragic death. This pirate war, this blasphemous and powerful, shameful thing is exactly the war waged by the Christian kings of Great Britain. He is determined to open a market where people can buy and sell, and he abuses his veto power to block any legislation that seeks to prohibit this abominable trade. Probably he didn't want to let these many people who had killed those who he also forced to redeem the freedom they had deprived. This is what he did, to repay the sin of depriving others of their freedom by forcing some people to deprive others of their lives.

"Jefferson accused George III." Stanwood said with a smile. "But this paragraph was deleted at the conference. I don't think George Washington wants the Declaration of Independence to be the same as the academic report, even if the charge against the king is Correct."

  "Where did you get it?" Gonsey asked.

   "Of course it is Jefferson's manor..."

   "These letters are all written by Jerome Bonaparte." Severus said, looking at Stanwood.

"I think you should know that Jerome was married to Miss Elizabeth in Baltimore." Stanwood said. "They had their wedding on Christmas Eve in 1803 and went to Niagara Falls for their honeymoon trip in 1804. Since they started, a large number of newlyweds have been married. The couple went to the Great Falls..."

"Jerome is a playboy." Severus interrupted Stanwood again. "Because he has a good brother, I want him to write a letter to Napoleon Bonaparte, not a letter from him and his friends. ."

"Jerome was taken care of by Victor DuPont during his stay in the United States. He paid Jerome a lot of bills." Stanwood said. "Their intersection began with the Louisiana acquisition and the establishment of DuPont Gunpowder. "

  Severus suddenly laughed.

   "He needs the French navy to transport saltpeter?"

"I don't know what you are talking about." Stanwood said inexplicably. "But the Bonaparte family does have a branch in Baltimore. Miss Elizabeth was abandoned after she became pregnant and raised the child by herself, and Jerome was because of According to his brother's arrangement, he married a princess."

  Severus stiffened his face without speaking, as if indifferent to the tragic story of the loving couple who fell in love but was broken up by Napoleon.

"But before that, Jerome was planted by Napoleon on a frigate that had just left the Genoa shipyard. He could not write to Elizabeth at sea, but Jerome made mistakes again and again, which made Napoleon very angry. , It also complicates the relationship between the two brothers."

   "Stupid idea." Severus said coldly.

   "But understandable." Gong Saiyi said helplessly.

"Later Jerome was sent to hunt down the pirates. Since the Battle of Trafalgar, the French navy’s strength in naval battles has been greatly reduced. In a game of hide and seek, Jerome returned to the island of St. Heena where his brother was exiled in the future. I took a break." Stanwood said, "These letters were written during his time. Unfortunately, he did not post many of these letters. Many things have changed when the ship docked."

   "What were you discussing just now?" Severusk asked.

  "The excerpted fragment from Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, including the accusations against King George III." Crimean said, "George Washington didn't want it to look like an academic report."

   "That's right. I always think the Declaration of Independence is like a metaphysical academic report." Severus curled his mouth and smiled and said, "Life is inherently unequal."

"This is the problem. This metaphysical view is not in line with'reality'. Do you think everyone in this world is following rationality?" Stanwood said. "The representative of the Southern Plantation, Choate, also said that the Declaration of Independence is a flashy empty talk This is what an unrealistic person says. Only a madman will want to abandon the hard-won and real things because of a set of metaphysical empty theories."

   "But the Southerner lost." Felix said.

"The northerners defeated the southerners, and I was also in chaos. I can't stand the dangerous country that is flooded with guns." Stanwood said tiredly. When they were equal, they did not think carefully. They are excellent patriots, but they were too excited and influenced by the French human rights school to come up with such gorgeous and arrogant sentences."

  "Gorgeous and arrogant?" Gong Saiyi repeated incredibly.

   Severus laughed.

   "This philosophy is destined to bring tragic consequences."

  "Do you think people should accept their fate? Accept this inequality?" Gonsai said angrily.

   "Actually, I don't think so." Stanwood stared at Gonsey calmly and said, "In addition to chaos and conflict, there is another way to destroy society."

"what?"

"Despair, no one can stay in despair for a long time. Despair will quickly lead to death. Being equal in life will at least awaken their numb, semi-drowsy souls and make them want to fight for better living conditions. Like someone said, don’t break out in despair, just die in despair."

   "I thought the original sentence meant an eruption in silence." Crimean said.

Stanwood was silent for a while and said, "Napoleon restricted people's freedom of speech, and people were forced to remain silent. I thought people in that era should be desperate, but investors were very confident before the Amiens contract was torn up. I don’t know whether that era was full of hope or despair."

   "Talk about politics when you meet. Is this your American habit?" Severus asked.

   "I heard that France is about to start chaos again, right?" Stanwood asked.

   "Gianluca told you?" Severus asked.

  "Is the country safe?" Stanwood continued to ask.

   "We are not sure." Crimean said.

  Stanwood smiled and shook his head. "Look, this is what I said. Only a madman would want to discard the hard-won, real things because of a set of metaphysical empty theories."

   "I don't understand." Crimean asked, confused.

  "Security." Stanwood said, "Those who want to immigrate to the United States during the war deliberately understand. I really don't understand what those people from rich and stable countries want to immigrate to the United States? Do you pursue democracy, freedom and equality?"

   "Everyone has their own real problems." Severus said calmly, "Muggle breeders would rather live on the streets than go back to the Muggle world. They think it's a better world."

  Stanwood looked at Severus in confusion.

"Bentham and his admirers believe that the minority should obey the majority. The goal of society is to seek the best interests for all its members. Don't ask what power people have in society, but ask what they get from society. Interest," Severus said.

   "I thought that was what Grindelwald said, for the greater good." Crimean said.

"In the face of reality, human natural power is either trampled underfoot or incomparably lofty. Large numbers of people often represent great power. This seems to mean that the minority must yield to the majority." Severus sneered and said, "This is what it is. Why do the Dark Lords pursue black magic and power? As long as they have the ultimate power, the number will no longer pose a threat to them. If it weren't for Nick LeMay, millions of people in Paris would have been wiped out that night."

   "It's dangerous, Snape, do you want to be a wizard like those Dark Lords?" Crimean asked.

   "There is nothing here. Let's switch to the next one." Severus stood up, "Remember to clean up."

  Stanwood was confused before he could figure out what was going on. Severus took the opportunity to copy all the documents on the table with a copy curse, including the full version of the "Declaration of Independence" that Jefferson had not deleted.

  It’s just that he took away the original and left a copy to Stanwood. Crimean was very dissatisfied with his behavior.

   "You don't think it is real, do you." Severus said to Crimean.

   "What if it is true?" Crimean asked rhetorically.

   "Just take a gamble." Severus said indifferently, glanced at the yellowed paper again, and then he woke up, thought he was ridiculous, and put it in the deformed lizard skin pocket.

  　 There is a book called "On the Declaration of Independence", what I read was published by business books, and I have not seen it from other publishers

  　　 The ship of Theseus is a famous paradox in metaphysics.

  　　

  　　

  　

  (End of this chapter)