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"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 woman by starvation, and the dwarfing
of childhood by physical and spiritual night—are not solved; as 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
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