World government

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Footnotes

1 The Milton attribution for this line is a popular myth, not confirmed by any of his known work. pothos.org has located the likely origin in an essay be Plutarch:

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¹ - Plutarch

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: "'Alexander cried when he heard Anaxarchus talk about the infinite number of worlds in the universe. One of Alexander's friends asked him what was the matter, and he replied: "There are so many worlds, and I have not yet conquered even one."' ("On Contentment of the Mind" in Plutach's Moralia.)

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In one sense the original quote has the opposite meaning to the legendary one, but both imply that he had the future conquest of the entire world within his grasp. Had he not died at 33, perhaps he would have created the first World government.

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