Victor Hugos Oration On Voltaire

Author : Victor Hugo
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365238799
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Victor Hugo's Oration on Voltaire written by Victor Hugo and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-19 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Victor Hugo's Oration on Voltaire: Delivered at Paris, May 30, 1878, the One Hundredth Anniversary of His Death The magnificent word painting of this oration and its inspiration is one of the highest points humanity has ever reached. We are at a loss to find anything superior to it. Compare with it the great orations of Pericles, Demosthenes, Cicero, Chatham, Mirabeau, Henry, Webster, or that peer less pearl, the consecration of the dead at Gettys burg, of Abraham Lincoln, and you will feel that those mighty voices were limited by local and temporary interests and feelings. Hugo has spoken for all the races of earth and for all time. He has realized to the heart and eye humanity's heaven of progress sustained by all of the powers of the good in the human soul. To those who can but catch a glimpse of its mighty meaning it will be a treasure forever. No one can read and understand it and be the same person he was before. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.