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>> Brie Carlisle: Take a look, in the book and let's see
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Take it chapter by chapter. One
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fight M at a time
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so many adventures and
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mountains we can climb
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to give word for word, line by
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line, one bite at a time.
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>> Brie Carlisle: Welcome to bite at a time books where we read you your
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>> Brie Carlisle: Values today well be
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continuing.
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Les Miserables by Victor
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Hugo chapter
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four the convent from the point of view of
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principles,
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men unite themselves and dwell in
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communities. By virtue of what
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right? By virtue of the right of
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association, they shut themselves up at
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home. By virtue of what right?
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By virtue of the right which every man has to open or
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shut his door. They do not come
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forth. By virtue of what
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right? By virtue of the right to go and
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come, which implies the right to remain at home.
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Theyre at home. What do they do?
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They speak in low tones. They drop their
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eyes. They toil. They renounce the
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world, towns, sensualities, pleasures,
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vanities, pride, interests. They are
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clothed in coarse woolen or coarse linen.
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Not one of them possesses in his own right anything
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whatever. On entering there, each
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one who is rich makes himself poor.
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What he has he gives to all.
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He who was what is called noble, a
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gentleman and a lord is the equal of him who is a
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peasant. The cell is identical for
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all. All undergo the same
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tonsure wear the same frocken, ate the same
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black bread, sleep on the same straw, die on the same
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ashesthe same sack on their
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backs, the same rope around their loins.
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If the decision has been to go barefoot,
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all go barefoot. There may be a prince
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among them. That prince is the same shadow
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as the rest. No titles,
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even family names, have disappeared. They bear
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only first names. All are bowed beneath
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the equality of baptismal names. They have dissolved
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the carnal family and constituted in their community a
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spiritual family. They have no other
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relatives than all men. They succor the
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poor, they care for the sick, they elect those whom they
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obey. they call each other my brother.
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You stop me and exclaim, but that is the ideal
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convent. It is sufficient that it may
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be the possible convent, that I should take notice of it.
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Thence it results that in the preceding book, I have
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spoken of a convent with respectful accents.
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The Middle Ages. Cast aside Asia.
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Cast aside the historical and political question
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held in reserve from the purely philosophical point
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of view, outside the requirements of militant policy,
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on, condition that the monastery shall be absolutely a
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voluntary matter and shall contain only consenting
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parties. I shall always consider
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a cloistered community with a certain attentive and
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in some respects, a deferential gravity.
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Wherever there is a community, there is a commune.
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Where there is a commune, there is right.
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The monastery is the product of the formula
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equality fraternity. oh. How grand
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is liberty. and what a splendid transfiguration.
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Liberty suffices to transform the m monastery into a
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republican. Let us continue.
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But these men are these women who are behind these four
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walls. They dress themselves in coarse
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woolen. They are equals. They
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call each other brothers. That is well, but they do something
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else. Yes,
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what? They gaze on the
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darkness. They kneel and they clasp their
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hands. What does this
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signify? Thank you for joining
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bite at a time books today while we wrote a bite of
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one of your favorite classics. Again, my name
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is Brie Carlisle, and I hope you come back
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tomorrow for the next bite of Le
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Miserable.
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>> Brie Carlisle: Dont forget to sign up for our
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>> Brie Carlisle: take a look and look and let's
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see what we can find.
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Take it chapter by chapter. One
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night at a time
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so many adventures and
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mountains we can climb
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to get worse line by
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line, one bite at a time.
