“ Would the world forever be a battleground on which the strong devoured the weak in pursuit of the perfection and continuity of the species? The question worried him, even if, as a man sure in the certainty of his own knowledge, he believed he could answer it. ”
Émile Zola, Germinal (1885). copy citation
Author | Émile Zola |
---|---|
Source | Germinal |
Topic | perfection certainty |
Date | 1885 |
Language | English |
Reference | |
Note | Translated by Roger Pearson |
Weblink |