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What then is this Thing, called La Revolution, which like an Angel of Death, hangs over France, noyading, fusillading, fighting, gun-boring, tanning human skins? La Revolution is but so many alphabetic letters; a thing nowhere to be laid hands on, to be clapped under lock and key: where is it? What is it? It is the Madness that dwells in the hearts of men. In this man it is, and in that man; as a rage or a terror, it is in all men. Invisible, impalpable; and yet no black Azrael, with wings spread over half a continent, with sword sweeping from sea to sea, could be a truer Reality.
--Thomas Carlyle, Book VI, Thermidor, from his The French Revolution--a History ...
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