The Toilers of the Sea, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Toilers of the Sea, Vol. 1 Religion, society, nature, these are the three struggles of man. These three conflicts are, at the same time, his three needs: it is necessary for him to believe, hence the temple, it is necessary for him to create, hence the city, it is necessary for him to live, hence the plow and the ship. But these three solutions contain three conflicts. The mysterious difficulty of life springs from all three. Man has to deal with obstacles under the form of superstition, under the form of prejudice, and under the form of the elements. A triple anankè weighs upon us, the anankè of dogmas, the anankè of laws, the anankè of things. In "Notre Dame de Paris" the author has denounced the first, in "Les Miserables" he has pointed out the second, in this book he indicates the third. With these three fatalities which envelop man is mingled the interior fatality, that supreme ananke, the human heart. Hauteville House, March, 1866. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.