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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 1774-M. the same way, and with more effort, have to deliver him at night. 1 This last is he who now, as a gray time-worn man, sits desolate at Gratz; having winded up his destiny with the Three Days. In such sort are poor mortals swept and shovelled to and fro. CHAPTER II. PETITION IN HIEROGLYPH8. With the working people, again, it is not so well . Unlucky For there are from twenty to twenty-five millions of them. Whom, however, we lump together into a kind of dim compendious unity, monstrous but dim, far off, as the canaille; or, more humanely, as the masses. Masses indeed: and yet, singular to say, if, with an effort of imagination, thou follow them, over broad France, into their clay hovels, into their garrets and hutches, the masses consist all of units. Every unit of whom has his own heart and sorrows; stands covered there with his own skin, and if you prick him he will bleed. O purple Sovereignty, Holiness, Reverence; thou, for example, Cardinal Grand-Almoner, with thy plush covering of honor, who hast thy hands strengthened with dignities and moneys, and art set on thy world watch-tower solemnly, in sight of God, for such ends, ? what a thought: that every unit of these masses is a miraculous Man, even as thou thyself art; struggling, with vision or with blindness, for his infinite Kingdom (this life which he has got, once only, in the middle of Eternities); with a spark of the Divinity, what thou callest an immortal soul, in him Dreary, languid do these struggle in their obscure remoteness; their hearth cheerless, their diet thin. For them, in this world, rises no Era of Hope; hardly now in the other, ? if it be not hope in the gloomy rest of Death, for their faith too is failing. Untaught, uncomforted, unfed A dumb gen- 1 Mercier: Nouveou Paris, i...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217910897 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217910890 |
| Weight | 1.08 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.74 In |
| List Price | $23.00 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 332 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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