Sunday 20 March 2011

The French Revolution

The historian Thomas Carlyle's thoughts on the rightness of revolt in a chapter from his work on the French Revolution. He approached it from a rather religious perspective. The text I cite is different from the original, since this blogger has rewritten it for the sake of fluency and accuracy; of course it may not be an improvement.

From Wikimedia Commons

Questionable

IS the "Age of Hope" only a chimera, cloud vapour with rainbows painted on it — beautiful to see, to sail towards — which hovers over a Niagara Falls? If so Analysis will gain the victory.