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The great betrayal (La trahison des clercs)

Note 5 — I The Modern Perfecting of Political Passions

Richard Aldington translation

As de Tocqueville profoundly remarks, these only occurred when a first improvement in his condition encouraged the man of the people to want more; i.e. towards the end of the eighteenth century.

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