“I proclaim the inevitable advent of the universal republic. Not the transient backslidings, nor the darkness and the dread, nor the tragic difficulty of uplifting the world everywhere at once will prevent the fulfillment of international truth.”

— Henri Barbusse

Light (1919), Ch. XXII - Light

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French novelist 1873–1935

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