Thought, under the form of edifice, could have beheld itself burned in the public square by the hands of the executioner, in its manuscript form, if it had been sufficiently imprudent to risk itself thus; thought, as the door of a church, would have been a spectator of the punishment of thought as a book.
Sans cette forme édifice, elle se serait vue brûler en place publique par la main du bourreau sous la forme manuscrit, si elle avait été assez imprudente pour s’y risquer. La pensée portail d’église eût assisté au supplice de la pensée livre.