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 Is this patrioticking lyricism - to give a beautiful ending - worthy of crowning a work of this kind? Or is it a mathematical necessity imposed by the pyramidal chapter structure?
-It is showing a profound misunderstanding of men and peoples ''de le donner a entendre''. Man does not only live on bread and the French-Canadian nation cannot be asked to live in daily contempt any longer.
+It is showing a profound misunderstanding of men and peoples ''de le donner a entendre''. Man does not live only on bread and the French-Canadian nation cannot be asked to live in daily contempt any longer.
 These are neither words of anglophobia arising from a two-century old feeling of vengeance. If this was the reason of independence, the success of our cause would soon be compromised, because life teaches us that nothing stable could be built on the burning sands of hatred.
-History decided that we be the vanquished in a battle whose stake was a continent. We are not rebelling against history. The English - is it necessary to say it? - are definitely established in America. But so are we, little people of six million, maybe eight or nine, from the Yukon to the Mexican Gulf, we are settled for good on this continent on which our ancestors were the first colonists.
+History decided that we be the vanquished in a battle whose stake was a continent. We are not rebelling against history. The English - is it necessary to say it? - are definitely settled in America. But so are we, little people of six million, maybe eight or nine, from the Yukon to the Mexican Gulf, we are settled for good on this continent on which our ancestors were the first colonists.
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