1 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.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 2 There occur formidable hours in our civilization; there are moments when the penal laws decree a shipwreck.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN 3 The sacred law of Jesus Christ governs our civilization, but it does not, as yet, permeate it; it is said that slavery has disappeared from European civilization.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XI—CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT 4 The elevation of level which they contribute to civilization is intrinsic with them; it proceeds from themselves and not from an accident.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? 5 The monastic regime, good at the beginning of civilization, useful in the reduction of the brutal by the spiritual, is bad when peoples have reached their manhood.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT 6 Cloisters, useful in the early education of modern civilization, have embarrassed its growth, and are injurious to its development.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT 7 Monasticism, such as it existed in Spain, and such as it still exists in Thibet, is a sort of phthisis for civilization.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST 8 It imposes its caricatures as well as its ideal on people; the highest monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their eternity to its mischievous pranks.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—TO SCOFF, TO REIGN 9 All those words: rights of the people, rights of man, the social contract, the French Revolution, the Republic, democracy, humanity, civilization, religion, progress, came very near to signifying nothing whatever to Grantaire.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 10 In the second place, and no offence to Combeferre, a charter granted is but a poor expedient of civilization.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN 11 There is a top and a bottom in this obscure sub-soil, which sometimes gives way beneath civilization, and which our indifference and heedlessness trample under foot.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—MINES AND MINERS 12 At a certain depth, the excavations are no longer penetrable by the spirit of civilization, the limit breathable by man has been passed; a beginning of monsters is possible.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—MINES AND MINERS 13 It not only undermines, in its hideous swarming, the actual social order; it undermines philosophy, it undermines human thought, it undermines civilization, it undermines revolution, it undermines progress.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS 14 Each one of these names corresponds to a variety of those misshapen fungi from the under side of civilization.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE 15 The Bourbons were an instrument of civilization which broke in the hands of Providence.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT