Chapter 1. The Treatise on the Human Will.
At Balzac's funeral, the glorious yet bitter seal upon his destiny, Victor Hugo delivered a magnificent address, and in his capacity as poet and seer proclaimed with assurance the judgment of posterity:
"His life has been brief yet full, and richer in works than in days.
"Alas! This powerful and indefatigable worker, this philosopher, this thinker, this poet, this genius has lived amongst us that...
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