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We have wasted...
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We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.
Source: From the Other Shore, Epilogue 1849 (1855), of the failure of the revolutionary movements in Europe after 1848.
-- Alexander Herzen, (Apr 6 1812-1870), Russian author; He distrusted governments, was sceptical of western democratic forms, and had great faith in the power of peasants and other ordinary people to organise themselves.