Augustine once said "a person who is a good and true christian should realize that truth belongs to his lord, wherever it is found, gathering and acknowledging it even in literature."

The answer is pagan: “pagan” is the word that should fill the blank line because it’s the word used in that part of Augustine of Hippo’s quote: Augustine once said: “a person who is a good and true Christian should realize that truth belongs to his Lord, wherever it is found, gathering and acknowledging it even in pagan literature, but rejecting superstitious vanities and deploring and avoiding those who ‘though they knew God did not glorify him as God or give thanks but became enfeebled in their own thoughts and plunged their senseless minds into darkness...”.

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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ugly things like bugs or something?