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There are ideal series of events which run parallel with the real ones. They rarely coincide. Men and circumstances generally modify the ideal train of events, so that it seems imperfect, and its consequences are equally imperfect. Thus with the Reformation; instead of Protestantism came Lutheranism.

As quoted in "The Mystery Of Marie Rogêt" (1842) by Edgar Allan Poe, adapted from Fragments from German Prose Writers (1841) by Sarah Austin

There are ideal series of events which run parallel with the real ones. They rarely coincide. Men and circumstances generally modify the ideal train...

There are ideal series of events which run parallel with the real ones. They rarely coincide. Men and circumstances generally modify the ideal train...

There are ideal series of events which run parallel with the real ones. They rarely coincide. Men and circumstances generally modify the ideal train...

There are ideal series of events which run parallel with the real ones. They rarely coincide. Men and circumstances generally modify the ideal train...