So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation, which, in the face of civilization, artificially creates hells on earth, and complicates a destiny that is divine, with human fatality;
so long as the three problems of the age
-the degradation of man by poverty, the ruin of women by starvation, and the dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night-
are not solved;
so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words, and from a yet more extended point of view,
so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.
Victor Hugo (1878-1968).
Les misérables introduction (1915).
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