Peter the Hermit, Calvin, and Robespierre, each at an interval of three hundred years and all three from the same region, were, politically speaking, the Archimedean screws of their age, - at each epoch a Thought which found its fulcrum in the self-interest of mankind. (Honoré de Balzac)

Peter the Hermit, Calvin, and Robespierre, each at an interval of three hundred years and all three from the same region, were, politically speaking, the Archimedean screws of their age, - at each epoch a Thought which found its fulcrum in the self-interest of mankind.

Honoré de Balzac

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