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Quotation from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle
“So dies a gigantic Heathen and Titan; stumbling blindly, undismayed, down to his rest”
The French Revolution: A History, Vol. II, Book III (The Tuileries), Ch. VII, 'Death of Mirabeau' (Project Gutenberg #1301)
After Mirabeau has written a plea for opium to end his agony, Carlyle sums up a death he finds great but without Christian hope.
Citation: "So dies a gigantic Heathen and Titan; stumbling blindly, undismayed, down to his rest" — Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History, Vol. II, Book III (The Tuileries), Ch. VII, 'Death of Mirabeau' (Project Gutenberg #1301). (id the-french-revolution-carlyle-q7)
