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The great betrayal (La trahison des clercs)

Note 140 — III The ‘Clerks’—The Great Betrayal (continued 2)

Richard Aldington translation

Or moral. Barrès denounces the ‘immorality’ of the scholar who shows the part played by chance in history. Compare Michelet’s remark, ‘respect kills history.’

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