O poor mortals, how ye make this Earth bitter for each other.

Thomas Carlyle

The French Revolution: A History

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Man's cruelty to man

Author

Thomas Carlyle

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The French Revolution: A History

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Historical literature

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Lament

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English

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

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Philosopher Writer

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Carlyle, Thomas. The French Revolution: A History. London: James Fraser, 1837, pt. 1, bk. 5, ch. 5.

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They have all a lively faith in the perfectibility of man, they judge that the diffusion of knowledge must necessarily be advantageous, and the consequences of ignorance fatal; they all consider society as a body in a state of improvement, humanity as a changing scene, in which nothing is, or ought to be, permanent; and they admit that what appears to them today to be good, may be superseded by something better tomorrow.

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Democracy in America
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Time
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Tocqueville, Alexis De. De La Democratie en Amerique [Democracy in America]. Vol. 1, London: Saunders and Otley, 1835, ch. 18, pt. 6.

Current Citation

Tocqueville, Alexis De. Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II, translated by Henry Reeve. Bantam Classics, 2000, vol. 1, ch. 18, pt. 6.