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160 pages, ebook
First published October 1, 1981
Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?
He had had the thought that, here, something different from reason governed things, men, time, death, something that it would be unfair to call madness and too general to call faith, superstition, ever since the night on which he had first heard the Counselor, immersed in that multitude which, as it listened to the deep, booming, strangely impersonal voice, had taken on a granite immobility, amid a silence one could touch. More than by the man鈥檚 words and his majestic voice, the journalist was struck, stunned, overwhelmed by that stillness, that silence in which they listened to him.
鉂� 賰丕賳賵丿賵爻禄 賴賷 丕賱匕乇賷毓丞 丕賱鬲賷 賷爻鬲賳丿 廿賱賷賴丕 乇噩購賱購賴購賲 賰賷 賷賰爻亘 賲夭賷丿丕賸 賲賳 丕賱賲噩丿 賵丕賱爻胤賵丞: 芦賲賵乇賷乇丕 爻賷夭丕乇禄 賷爻丨賯 賲丐丕賲乇丞 賲賱賰賷丞! 芦賲賵乇賷乇丕 爻賷夭丕乇禄 賷賳賯匕 丕賱噩賲賴賵乇賷丞! 兀賱賷爻 賴匕丕 禺賷乇 丿賱賷賱 賲賲賰賳 毓賱賶 兀賳 丕賱噩賷卮 賵丨丿賴 賴賵 丕賱賯丕丿乇 毓賱賶 囟賲丕賳 爻賱丕賲丞 丕賱賵胤賳責 賵賴賰匕丕 賷鬲爻賱賲 丕賱噩賷卮 丕賱爻賱胤丞 爻乇賷毓丕賸貙 賮鬲毓賱賳 芦丕賱噩賲賴賵乇賷丞 丕賱丿賰鬲丕鬲賵乇賷丞禄) .
What is the explanation of Canudos? Hereditary defects of people of mixed blood? Lack of education? A predisposition toward barbarism on the part of men who are accustomed to violence and who resist civilization out of atavism? Something to do with religion, with God? He finds none of these explanations satisfactory.