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grand is liberty! And what a splendid transfiguration! Lib-
erty suffices to transform the monastery into a republic.
Let us continue.
But these men, or these women who are behind these
four walls. They dress themselves in coarse woollen, they
are equals, they call each other brothers, that is well; but
they do something else?
Yes.
What?
They gaze on the darkness, they kneel, and they clasp
their hands.
What does this signify?
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