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| Germaine de Staël-Woman of letters |
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened. - Germaine de Staël
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein, known as Madame de Staël (1766-1817) was a French woman of letters of Swiss origin whose lifetime overlapped with the events of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era. - Wikipedia
