With the world began a war that will only end with the world, and not before: that of man against nature, mind against matter, freedom against fate. History is nothing but the story of this endless struggle.


Michelet, Jules (1843). Introduction à l'histoire universelle. Hachette. p. 9. - Introduction to Universal History, 1831, 1831

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With the world began a war that will only end with the world, and not before: that of man against nature, mind against matter, freedom against fate....

With the world began a war that will only end with the world, and not before: that of man against nature, mind against matter, freedom against fate....

With the world began a war that will only end with the world, and not before: that of man against nature, mind against matter, freedom against fate....

With the world began a war that will only end with the world, and not before: that of man against nature, mind against matter, freedom against fate....