322 |325 |by Leo Tolstoy/Tolstoi
323 |BOOK ONE: 1805
324 |
"Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the 328 | Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war, 329 | if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by 330 | that Antichrist--I really believe he is Antichrist--I will have 331 | nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer 332 | my 'faithful slave,' as you call yourself! But how do you do? I see 333 | I have frightened you--sit down and tell me all the news."
334 |...stuff happens...
335 |From the time the law of Copernicus was discovered and proved, the 339 | mere recognition of the fact that it was not the sun but the earth 340 | that moves sufficed to destroy the whole cosmography of the 341 | ancients.
342 |...
343 | 347 |In the first case it was necessary to renounce the consciousness 348 | of an unreal immobility in space and to recognize a motion we did 349 | not feel; in the present case it is similarly necessary to renounce 350 | a freedom that does not exist, and to recognize a dependence of 351 | which we are not conscious.
352 |--- The End ---
353 |PLE (Personal Learning Environment) 21 |