Book Excerpt: ll human probability or expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, though death was levelling my companions on every side of me." Through life, this man, great in all that mankind prize, loved and believed in the Christian religion. Agnosticism had no charms for him.Washington returned to Mount Vernon temporarily broken in health, and his fond mother, who was living at the old...