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Hope for 1856

Another year is added to the story of the past, another ring onto the great chain of centuries; and in the middle of the continuous fight between the east and west, in the middle of the work of destruction unavoidably subject to the dominion of time, one thing alone smiles at us. Always a beautiful virgin, always young and seductive: hope. This, which surrounded our cradle with the vaguest flowers; this, which constantly nourishes our lives. The splendid light that obscures the reality of humanity's evils presents itself on the first day of the new year. And yet history is cruel: how many centuries of terrible war have tormented it! Among the profound darkness of barbarity, it sees a rising sun of civilization, but only to see it promptly fall again at dusk, and the life of the people did not become otherwise distinct like the life of the individual. To Egypt, which had already spread its light onto different points of the land, Greece occurred; Rome became enormous on the destruction of conquered populations; Byzantium collected the remains; so they gradually elevated themselves to prominence above the other populations of Europe/they gradually elevated to prominence the other populations of Europe (CHECK THIS). But what ___? The hostility of the different races was timeless; the only affairs that they praised were war, conquest, destruction. Of the noteworthy (CHECK) individuals are master and slave, father and son, man and woman, the Roman, the Greek, the Barbarian, a terrible extent of tyranny, of free will, of humiliation, and of despondency. Industries were despised, like a shame to free men, so the immense multitude of slaves would come condemned to carry out the work that should have returned (CHECK) to common benefit. The majority of the human kind, therefore, suffered from the slavery system of a legal oppressive power. 1855 years have already passed since a new doctrine came to comfort troubled humanity, to emancipate women, to release slaves and proletarians from their humiliating chains, to proclaim universal brotherhood, equality for every member of humankind. Against this religion, simple and true in its teachings, pure and sublime in its morals, in which slaves saw freedom, the oppressed saw justice, the poor saw generosity, since its birth the most heinous persecutions have been thrown against it, therefore a theater of new barbarity became the land. (CHECK). The seed of christians fertilized in that blood, but the fight unfortunately had to endure