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"There must have been something stronger than the stake or the fire . . There must have been an idea more powerful than all the calamities and sorrows of this world . .an idea which entered into the heart . . Show me a force . . that, in this our century . . Show me a single idea which unites men nowadays with half the strength . . and dare to maintain that the ‘springs of life’ have not been polluted" -The Idiot