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Quotation from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle
“How the Twenty-five Millions of such, in their perplexed combination, acting and counter-acting may give birth to events”
The French Revolution: A History, Vol. I, Book VI (Consolidation), Ch. I, 'Make the Constitution' (Project Gutenberg #1301)
Carlyle sets aside the parliamentary records that fill most histories and states his real problem: how the passions of a whole people, acting on one another, produce the events he must narrate.
Citation: "How the Twenty-five Millions of such, in their perplexed combination, acting and counter-acting may give birth to events" — Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History, Vol. I, Book VI (Consolidation), Ch. I, 'Make the Constitution' (Project Gutenberg #1301). (id the-french-revolution-carlyle-q1)
