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" [F]rom the maggot up to man, the universal law of violent destruction of living things is unceasingly fulfilled. The entire earth, continually steeped in blood, is only an immense altar on which every living thing must be immolated without end, without... "
Isaiah Berlin's Counter-Enlightenment - Page 121
edited by - 2003 - 196 pages
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St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of ...

Joseph Marie comte de Maistre - History - 1993 - 458 pages
...living things is unceasingly fulfilled. The entire earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must...the extinction of evil, until the death of death. 14 1 Genesis 9:6. 12 [The Roman Emperor Nerva was assassinated in 98; King Henry IV of France was assassinated...
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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death. JOSEPH DE MAISTRE, (1753-1821) French diplomat, philosopher,...
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More Moderate Side of Joseph de Maistre: Views on Political Liberty and ...

Cara Camcastle - Business & Economics - 2005 - 306 pages
...impact. "There is not an instant of its duration where a living thing is not devoured by another ... The entire earth, continually steeped in blood, is...every living thing must be immolated without end."* 0 Some critics of his published works erroneously interpreted these images as evidence of a warped...
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