The Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc V2

How did she know it? It was simple: she was a peasant. That tells the whole story. She was of the people and knew the people; those others moved in a loftier sphere and knew nothing much about them. We make little account of that vague, formless, inert mass, that mighty underlying force which we call the people –an epithet which carries contempt with it. It is a strange attitude;