Carton's Prophetic Vision

From A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Carton's final imagined vision of the post-Revolutionary future is one of the most quoted prophetic passages in Victorian fiction.
Book 3, Chapter 15 (The Footsteps Die Out For Ever)
I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss... I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy.
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