THE reader has, no doubt, already divined that M. Madeleine is no other than Jean Valjean. We have already gazed into the depths of this conscience; the moment has now come when we must take another look into it. We do so not without emotion and trepidation. There is nothing more terrible in existence than this sort of contemplation. The eye of the spirit can nowhere find more dazzling brilliance and more shadow than in man; it can fix itself on no other thing which is more formidable, more complicated, more mysterious, and more infinite. There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven: there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the inmost recesses of the soul. (Hugo, Victor,"Les Miserables" Volume I, "Fontine", Book VII, "The ChampMathieu Affair" Chapter III, "A Tempest in a Skull") (Jeremiah 17:9, I Samuel 16:7, I Corinthians 2:16, Hebrews 5:14, I Kings 3:9, I Corinthians 13:12, I John 4:17, Hebrews 4:12, Philippians 2:12, Romans 7:18-21, Romans 8:5, Psalm 8, 19:1-6, Genesis 1:26-27, John 4:24, I Thessalonians 5:23)
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