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Candide Chapter 5 - Tempest, Shipwreck, Earthquake, and What Became of Doctor Pangloss, Candide, and James the Anabaptist · The Voltaire Library

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  Speaker 1: TEMPEST, SHIPWRECK, EARTHQUAKE, AND WHAT BECAME OF DR. PANGLOSS, CANDIDE,
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  Speaker 1: AND JAMES THE ANABAPTIST Half dead of that inconceivable anguish
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  Speaker 1: which the rolling of a ship produces, one half of
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  Speaker 1: the passengers were not even sensible of the danger. The
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  Speaker 1: other half shrieked and prayed. The sheets were rent, the
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  Speaker 1: masts broken, the vessel gaped. Work who would, no one heard,
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  Speaker 1: no one commanded. The Anabaptist being upon deck bore a hand,
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  Speaker 1: when a brutish sailor struck him roughly and laid him sprawling.
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  Speaker 1: But with the violence of the blow he himself tumbled
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  Speaker 1: headforemost overboard and stuck upon a piece of the broken mast.
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  Speaker 1: Honest James ran to his assistance, hauled him up, and
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  Speaker 1: from the effort he made was precipitated into the sea
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  Speaker 1: in sight of the sailor, who left him to perish,
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  Speaker 1: without deigning to look at him. Candide drew near and
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  Speaker 1: saw his benefactor, who rose above the water one moment,
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  Speaker 1: and was then swallowed up for ever. He was just
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  Speaker 1: going to jump after him, but was prevented by the
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  Speaker 1: philosopher Pangloss, who demonstrated to him that the bay of
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  Speaker 1: lisbon had been made on purpose for the anabaptists to
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  Speaker 1: be drowned while he was proving this a priori the
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  Speaker 1: ship foundered all perished except pangloss candide and that brutal
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  Speaker 1: sailor who had drowned the good anabaptist the villain swam
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  Speaker 1: safely to shore while pangloss and candide were borne thither
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  Speaker 1: upon a plank as soon as they recovered themselves a
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  Speaker 1: little they walked toward Lisbon. They had some money left,
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  Speaker 1: with which they hoped to save themselves from starving, after
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  Speaker 1: they had escaped drowning. Scarcely had they reached the city,
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  Speaker 1: lamenting the death of their benefactor, when they felt the
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  Speaker 1: earth tremble under their feet. The sea swelled and foamed
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  Speaker 1: in the harbor, and beat to pieces the vessels riding
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  Speaker 1: at anchor. Whirlwinds of fire and ashes covered the streets
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  Speaker 1: and public places. Houses fell, Roofs were flung upon the pavements,
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  Speaker 1: and the pavements were scattered. Thirty thousand inhabitants of all
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  Speaker 1: ages and sexes were crushed under the ruins. The sailor,
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  Speaker 1: whistling and swearing, said that there was booty to be
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  Speaker 1: gained here.' What can be the sufficient reason of this phenomenon?'
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  Speaker 1: said Pangloss.' This is the last day,' cried Candide. the
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  Speaker 1: sailor ran among the ruins facing death to find money
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  Speaker 1: finding it he took it got drunk and having slept
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  Speaker 1: himself sober purchased the favors of the first good-natured wench
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  Speaker 1: whom he met on the ruins of the destroyed houses
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  Speaker 1: and in the midst of the dying and the dead
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  Speaker 1: pangloss pulled him by the sleeve my friend said he
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  Speaker 1: this is not right You sin against the universal reason.
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  Speaker 1: You choose your time badly.
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  Speaker 2: Splod and fury, answered the other. I am a sailor
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  Speaker 2: and born at Batavia. Four times have I trampled upon
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  Speaker 2: the crucifix in four voyages to Japan. A fig for
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  Speaker 2: thy universal reason. Some falling stones had wounded Candide. he
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  Speaker 2: lay stretched in the street covered with rubbish alas said
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  Speaker 2: he to pangloss get me.
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  Speaker 1: A little wine and oil i am dying.
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  Speaker 3: This concussion of the earth is no new thing answered
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  Speaker 3: pangloss the city of lima in america experienced the same
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  Speaker 3: convulsions last year the same cause the same effects there
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  Speaker 3: is certainly a train of sulphur underground from lima to
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  Speaker 3: lisbon nothing more probable said candide but.
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  Speaker 1: For the love of god a little oil and wine
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  Speaker 1: how probable replied the philosopher i maintain that the point
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  Speaker 1: is capable of being demonstrated candide fainted away and Pangloss
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  Speaker 1: fetched him some water from a neighboring fountain. The following
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  Speaker 1: day they rummaged among the ruins and found provisions with
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  Speaker 1: which they repaired their exhausted strength. After this they joined
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  Speaker 1: with others in relieving those inhabitants who had escaped death. Some,
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  Speaker 1: whom they had succored, gave them as good a dinner
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  Speaker 1: as they could in such disastrous circumstances. True, the repast
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  Speaker 1: was mournful, and the company moistened their bread with tears
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  Speaker 1: but pangloss consoled them assuring them that things could not
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  Speaker 1: be otherwise.
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  Speaker 4: For said he all that is is for the best
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  Speaker 4: if there is a volcano at lisbon it cannot be
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  Speaker 4: elsewhere it is impossible that things should be other than
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  Speaker 4: they are for everything is.
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  Speaker 1: Right a little man dressed in black familiar of the
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  Speaker 1: inquisition who sat by him politely took up his word
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  Speaker 1: and said.
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  Speaker 5: Apparently then sir you do not believe in original sin
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  Speaker 5: for if all is for the best there has then
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  Speaker 5: been neither fall nor punishment i humbly ask your excellency's
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  Speaker 5: pardon answered Pangloss still more politely, for the fall and
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  Speaker 5: curse of man necessarily entered into the system of the
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  Speaker 5: best of worlds.
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  Speaker 1: Sir, said the familiar, you do not then believe in liberty?
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  Speaker 1: Your Excellency will excuse me, said Pangloss. liberty is consistent
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  Speaker 1: with absolute necessity for it was necessary we should be
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  Speaker 1: free for in short the determinant will pangloss was in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of his sentence when the familiar beckoned to
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  Speaker 1: his footman who gave him a glass of wine from
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