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| Alphonse Bertillon Anarchist Charles Galau 1894 albumen silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Alphonse Bertillon Anarchist Auguste Bordes 1894 albumen silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art |
"Altogether the old man was a prey to suppositions which led him to feel how much he himself had outlived the democratic glow of his prime. He had ended by accepting everything ... and even by taking an interest in current politics, as to which, of old, he had held the opinion (the same that the Poupins held to-day) that they had been invented on purpose to throw dust in the eyes of disinterested reformers and to circumvent the social solution. He had given up that problem some time ago; there was no way to clear it up that didn't seem to make a bigger mess than the actual muddle of human affairs, which, by the time one had reached sixty-five, had mostly ceased to exasperate. Mr. Vetch could still feel a certain sharpness on the subject of the prayer-book and the bishops; and if at moments he was a little ashamed of having accepted this world he could reflect that at all events he continued to repudiate every other. The idea of great changes, however, took its place among the dreams of his youth; for what was any possible change in the relations of men and women but a new combination of the same elements? If the elements could be made different the thing would be worth thinking of; but it was not only impossible to introduce any new ones – no means had yet been discovered for getting rid of the old. The figures on the chessboard were still the passions and jealousies and superstitions and stupidities of man, and their position with regard to each other, at any given moment, could be of interest only to the grim, invisible fates who played the game – who sat, through the ages, low-backed over the table."
– from The Princess Casamassima (1885) by Henry James
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| Alphonse Bertillon Anarchist Antoine Benoit 1894 albumen silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Alphonse Bertillon Anarchist Alexandre Émile Bocquet 1894 albumen Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Alphonse Bertillon Anarchist Aimé Firmin-Anceau 1894 albumen silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Alphonse Bertillon Anarchist Sébastien Bissonier 1894 albumen silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Alphonse Bertillon Anarchist Raoul Borderie 1894 albumen silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Alphonse Bertillon Anarchist Maurice Bassille 1894 albumen silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Alphonse Bertillon Anarchist Hercule Bedei 1894 albumen silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Alphonse Bertillon Anarchist Gabriel Billon 1894 albumen silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Alphonse Bertillon Anarchist Eugène Bellemans 1894 albumen silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Alphonse Bertillon Anarchist Eugène Billot 1894 albumen silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Alphonse Bertillon Anarchist Émile Maince 1894 albumen silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Alphonse Bertillon Anarchist Félix Brunet 1894 albumen silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art |