Nov 1, 2022 • 8M

NARRATED: Kings or Cleverness? How Revolutionary France Elevated Genius

WARNING: This article is replete with an incomprehensibly odd number of pretentious French subtitles.

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Written by Matthew Archer.

It nearly always takes some stimulus to bring the genius on the scene. The hammer-stroke of Fate which throws one man to the ground suddenly strikes steel in another, and when the shell of everyday life is broken, the previously hidden kernel lies open before the eyes of the astonished world. The world then resists and does not…

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