Les Misérables, Book 7: Parenthesis, Chapter 6: riassunto

Cosa succede

1. The narrator accepts every sincere form of prayer and compares denial of infinity to blindness toward sunlight.
2. He respects powerful atheist thinkers but rejects their philosophy and questions a school that substitutes will for force.
3. He argues that denying infinity leads to nihilism, whose doubts undermine discussion and thought.
4. He insists that philosophy must improve human life by joining knowledge, conscience, and action.
5. He identifies faith and love as necessary forces for progress and names God as its ideal.

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