- John Rand, having lived in a small town his entire life, dreams of possessing wealth and power in New York. Napoleon Bonaparte has long been his ideal, and one day he feels a message from the departed general urging him to take up the fight for world supremacy. He goes to the city ready to begin the battle, and there, aided by his Napoleonic visions, John amasses a great fortune, ruthlessly destroying everyone who presents an obstacle to his lust for power. His ambitions satiated, John becomes the enemy of democracy when he sells a secret formula to an enemy power. He is later killed by an anarchist. John then awakens to find himself in his cottage, secure in his mother's devotion and the love of Marion Sherwood, the banker's daughter.
- John Rand, living in a small western city, was one of those men whose latent forces would make him either a curse or blessing to mankind. He dreamed of greatness and power, holding Napoleon as his Ideal. Marion Sherwood loved Rand, but loved society and fine clothes more. When her father fell heir to the control of a great trust company, and moved to New York, young Rand went along. When he asked Sherwood for his daughter's hand, Rand was told that his income was too small to marry on, but was advised that once he attained wealth he could marry the girl. An old man who has spent his life experimenting with a high explosive brings the formula to the trust company for safe deposit. Young Rand is alone in the office and takes charge of the paper. When Rand learns later that the inventor has been killed by his own explosive, he sells the secret to a foreign government. With the proceeds he speculates in Wall Street and becomes immensely rich. His wealth creates a desire for power and a determination to be avenged upon all who have opposed him. His love for Marion Sherwood dissolves into hatred for her father, and Rand goes on with his purpose to likewise ruin everyone of his acquaintance. Finally he is so detested that opposition to him contemplates violence and anarchists are employed to destroy him. While he is in his spacious mansion, Rand's home and everyone in it blows to atoms under the power of tremendous explosives. Rand awakes from a dream. The nightmare has changed his vision of the future. Love is at hand, and he folds Marion Sherwood to his heart.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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