(After witnessing executions in Paris) When I saw the heads being separated from the bodies and heard them thump, one after the next, I understood, and not just with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of existence and progress could justify this crime. I realized that even if every single person since the day of creation had, according to whatever theory, found this necessary I knew that it was unnecessary and wrong, and therefore that judgments on what i
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