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Why, it was like reading about France and the French, before the ever memorable and blessed Revolution, which swept a thousand years of such villainy away in one swift tidal-wave of blood — one: a settlement of that hoary debt in the proportion of half a drop of blood for each hogshead of it that had been pressed by slow tortures out of that people in the weary stretch of ten centuries of wrong and shame and misery the like of which was not to be mated but in hell. There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror — that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Part 3 “The Tale of the Lost Land,” ch. 13 “Freemen”More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/85886/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #connecticutyankee #frenchrevolution #bloodshed #oppression #perspective #proportionality #revolution #terror #tyranny #uprising
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Why, it was like reading about France and the French, before the ever memorable and blessed Revolution, which swept a thousand years of such villainy away in one swift tidal-wave of blood — one: a settlement of that hoary debt in the proportion of half a drop of blood for each hogshead of it that had been pressed by slow tortures out of that people in the weary stretch of ten centuries of wrong and shame and misery the like of which was not to be mated but in hell. There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror — that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Part 3 “The Tale of the Lost Land,” ch. 13 “Freemen”More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/85886/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #connecticutyankee #frenchrevolution #bloodshed #oppression #perspective #proportionality #revolution #terror #tyranny #uprising
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Why, it was like reading about France and the French, before the ever memorable and blessed Revolution, which swept a thousand years of such villainy away in one swift tidal-wave of blood — one: a settlement of that hoary debt in the proportion of half a drop of blood for each hogshead of it that had been pressed by slow tortures out of that people in the weary stretch of ten centuries of wrong and shame and misery the like of which was not to be mated but in hell. There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror — that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Part 3 “The Tale of the Lost Land,” ch. 13 “Freemen”More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/85886/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #connecticutyankee #frenchrevolution #bloodshed #oppression #perspective #proportionality #revolution #terror #tyranny #uprising
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Why, it was like reading about France and the French, before the ever memorable and blessed Revolution, which swept a thousand years of such villainy away in one swift tidal-wave of blood — one: a settlement of that hoary debt in the proportion of half a drop of blood for each hogshead of it that had been pressed by slow tortures out of that people in the weary stretch of ten centuries of wrong and shame and misery the like of which was not to be mated but in hell. There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror — that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Part 3 “The Tale of the Lost Land,” ch. 13 “Freemen”More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/85886/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #connecticutyankee #frenchrevolution #bloodshed #oppression #perspective #proportionality #revolution #terror #tyranny #uprising
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Why, it was like reading about France and the French, before the ever memorable and blessed Revolution, which swept a thousand years of such villainy away in one swift tidal-wave of blood — one: a settlement of that hoary debt in the proportion of half a drop of blood for each hogshead of it that had been pressed by slow tortures out of that people in the weary stretch of ten centuries of wrong and shame and misery the like of which was not to be mated but in hell. There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror — that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Part 3 “The Tale of the Lost Land,” ch. 13 “Freemen”More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/85886/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #connecticutyankee #frenchrevolution #bloodshed #oppression #perspective #proportionality #revolution #terror #tyranny #uprising
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Cross-sectional view of Newton’s Cenotaph (1784) by Étienne-Louis Boullée.
Source: Library of Congress
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/8d0e8453-420d-40b9-bb3f-db8e90d9a165
#france #forms #designs #tombs #frenchrevolution #fantasyarchitecture #spheres #monuments #utopias #ink #geometry #architecture #isaacnewton #theimpossible #design #painting #drawing #art #publicdomain
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Cross-sectional view of Newton’s Cenotaph (1784) by Étienne-Louis Boullée.
Source: Library of Congress
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/8d0e8453-420d-40b9-bb3f-db8e90d9a165
#france #forms #designs #tombs #frenchrevolution #fantasyarchitecture #spheres #monuments #utopias #ink #geometry #architecture #isaacnewton #theimpossible #design #painting #drawing #art #publicdomain
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Cross-sectional view of Newton’s Cenotaph (1784) by Étienne-Louis Boullée.
Source: Library of Congress
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/8d0e8453-420d-40b9-bb3f-db8e90d9a165
#france #forms #designs #tombs #frenchrevolution #fantasyarchitecture #spheres #monuments #utopias #ink #geometry #architecture #isaacnewton #theimpossible #design #painting #drawing #art #publicdomain
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Cross-sectional view of Newton’s Cenotaph (1784) by Étienne-Louis Boullée.
Source: Library of Congress
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/8d0e8453-420d-40b9-bb3f-db8e90d9a165
#france #forms #designs #tombs #frenchrevolution #fantasyarchitecture #spheres #monuments #utopias #ink #geometry #architecture #isaacnewton #theimpossible #design #painting #drawing #art #publicdomain
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Cross-sectional view of Newton’s Cenotaph (1784) by Étienne-Louis Boullée.
Source: Library of Congress
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/8d0e8453-420d-40b9-bb3f-db8e90d9a165
#france #forms #designs #tombs #frenchrevolution #fantasyarchitecture #spheres #monuments #utopias #ink #geometry #architecture #isaacnewton #theimpossible #design #painting #drawing #art #publicdomain
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The metre originated in the French Revolution
#HackerNews #metre #FrenchRevolution #metricSystem #measurement #history
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As today is #BastilleDay , I've put together a series of perspectives on the French Revolution from a working-class postion. Here's Rosa Luxemburg's view on how the French Revolution. She shows that failure of the bourgeois class to realise its own aims, such as economic equality, led to conflict with its erstwhile allies, the propertyless and poor classes of France (a proto-proletariat).
https://proletarianperspective.wordpress.com/2024/07/13/perspectives-on-the-french-revolution-rosa-luxemburg-on-the-year-1793/
#July14 #FrenchRevolution -
We cut off a king's head 'cos he said he had "divine right"
(ok, it was slightly more complex and we then had 10 years of theocracy where the most exciting thing you could do was eat an onion, but you can't have it all...)
The French followed suite a bit later. Kings' heads are detachable...