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W. Moy Thomas — Translator · French → English

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Religion, Society, and Nature! these are the three struggles of man.

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“Religion, Society, and Nature! these are the three struggles of man.”

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Hugo frames human life as involving simultaneous struggles with belief, social institutions and the physical world.

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Toilers of the Sea, Preface, represented by Project Gutenberg #32338 in W. Moy Thomas's English translation. 'Religion, Society, and Nature! these are the three struggles of man' opens Hugo's triadic framing of Notre-Dame de Paris, Les Misérables and Toilers of the Sea. It is translated authorial/literary framing, not a social-scientific taxonomy of every human struggle.

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