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I will explain therefore how, studying in the silence of my heart, and far from every human consideration, the mystery of social revolutions, God, the great unknown, has become for me an hypothesis, — I mean a necessary dialectical tool.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon The System of Economic Contradictions, or The Philosophy of Poverty (1846)

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