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Les Miserables

CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
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The mill is there no longer; the wind is still there." "You have demolished.

It may be of use to demolish, but I distrust a demolition complicated with wrath." "Right has its wrath, Bishop; and the wrath of right is an element of progress.

In any case, and in spite of whatever may be said, the French Revolution is the most important step of the human race since the advent of Christ.

Incomplete, it may be, but sublime.

It set free all the unknown social quantities; it softened spirits, it calmed, appeased, enlightened; it caused the waves of civilization to flow over the earth.


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