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<noinclude>{{work}}</noinclude>=== Book 7—Parenthesis ===
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==== CHAPTER I—The Convent as an Abstract Idea ====
 
'''CHAPTER I—THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA'''
 
This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite.
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This is not the place for enlarging disproportionately on certain ideas; nevertheless, while absolutely maintaining our reserves, our restrictions, and even our indignations, we must say that every time we encounter man in the Infinite, either well or ill understood, we feel ourselves overpowered with respect. There is, in the synagogue, in the mosque, in the pagoda, in the wigwam, a hideous side which we execrate, and a sublime side, which we adore. What a contemplation for the mind, and what endless food for thought, is the reverberation of God upon the human wall!
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