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Is it not time to cry that the blind shall see, the deaf hear, the lame walk? But that which fanaticism formerly promised to its elect, science now accomplishes for all men.
Is it not time to cry that the blind shall see, the deaf hear, the lame walk? But that which fanaticism formerly promised to its elect, science now accomplishes for all men.
Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- Gustave Flaubert
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- Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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