Sublime

C’est pourquoi rien n’est plus utile à chaque individu et à la société tout entière que chaque être humain cherche à vivre sous la conduite de la raison : « En tant que les hommes sont dominés par des sentiments qui sont des passions, ils peuvent s’opposer les uns aux autres […].

—The Europeans believe that liberty is promoted by depriving the social authority of some of its rights; the Americans, by dividing its exercise—Almost

Moreover, Harriet Stowe had made a black man her hero, and she took his race seriously, and no American writer had done that before. The fundamental fault, she fervently held, was with the system. Every white American was guilty, the Northerner no less than the slaveholder, especially the churchgoing kind, her kind.

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En tant qu’écrivain, je dois croire à la liberté de parole, quoi qu’il arrive – plus simple et plus vrai, il est difficile de faire mieux.

A true friend of man; almost the only friend of human progress. An Old Mortality, say rather an Immortality, with unwearied patience and faith making plain the image engraven in men’s bodies, the God of whom they are but defaced and leaning monuments.