[Les Miserables by Victor Hugo]@TWC D-Link bookLes Miserables CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 13/33
I voted for fraternity, concord, the dawn.
I have aided in the overthrow of prejudices and errors.
The crumbling away of prejudices and errors causes light.
We have caused the fall of the old world, and the old world, that vase of miseries, has become, through its upsetting upon the human race, an urn of joy." "Mixed joy," said the Bishop. "You may say troubled joy, and to-day, after that fatal return of the past, which is called 1814, joy which has disappeared! Alas! The work was incomplete, I admit: we demolished the ancient regime in deeds; we were not able to suppress it entirely in ideas.
To destroy abuses is not sufficient; customs must be modified.
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