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Take it chapter by chapter. One
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>> Brie Carlisle: Values today well be
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continuing.
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le miserable by Victor Hugo
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chapter five prayer
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they pray to whom?
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To God? To pray to God. What is
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the meaning of these words? Is there an infinite
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beyond us? Is that infinite there
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inherent, permanent, necessarily
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substantial, since it is infinite, and
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because if it lacked matter, it would be bounded,
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necessarily intelligent, since it is
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infinite, and because if it lacked intelligence,
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it would end there. Does this
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infinite awaken in us the idea of essence, while we can
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attribute to ourselves only the idea of existence?
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In other terms, is it not the absolute of which we
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are only the relative at the same
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time that there is an infinite without us?
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Is there not an infinite within us?
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Are not these two infinites? What an alarming
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plural, superposed the one
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upon the other? Is not the
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second infinite, so to speak, subjacent to the
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first? Is it not the latter's
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mirror reflection echo, an abyss which is
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concentric with another abyss?
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Is the second infinity intelligent also?
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Does it think? Does it love?
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Does it will? If these two
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infinites are intelligent. Each of them has a will
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principle. And there is an eye in the upper infinity as there is
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an eye in the lower infinity. the eye
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below is the soul. The eye on high is
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God. To place the infinity
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here below in contact by the medium of thought
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with the infinity on high is called praying.
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Let us take nothing from the human mind.
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To suppress is bad. We must reform
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and transform. Certain faculties in man
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are directed towards the unknown. Thought,
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reverie, prayer.
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The unknown is an ocean.
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What is conscience? It is the
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compass of the unknown. Thought,
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reverie, prayer. These
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are great and mysterious radiations. Let
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us respect them. Whither go these majestic
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irradiations of the soul into the
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shadow, that is to say, to the
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light. The grandeur of democracy is to disown
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nothing and to deny nothing of humanity
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close to the right of man. Beside it, at the least, there
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exists the right of the soul to
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crush fanaticism and to venerate the infinite. Such is
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the law. Let us not
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confine ourselves to prostrating ourselves before the tree of
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creation and to the contemplation of its branches full of
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stars. We have a duty to
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labor over the human soul, to defend the mystery
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against the miracle, to adore the incomprehensible
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and reject the absurd. To
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admit as an inexplicable
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fact only what is necessary to purify
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belief, to remove superstitions from above religion,
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to clear God of caterpillars.
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Thank you for joining Byte at a timebooks today while we
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read a bite.
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>> Brie Carlisle: Of one of your favorite classics.
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>> Brie Carlisle: Again, my name is Brie carlisle, and I
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hope you come back tomorrow for the next bite
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of le Miserable.
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>> Brie Carlisle: Dont forget to sign up for our newsletter at,
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>> Brie Carlisle: Take a look and let's
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Take it chapter by chapter. One.
