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6.12.2004
Re: Guileless in the enlightenment
- Everything is for the best, in this, the best of all possible worlds.
`Do you think', said Candide, `that men have always massacred each other the way they do now? that they've always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates, brigands? that they've always been feeble, fickle, envious, gluttonous, drunken, avaricious, ambitious, bloodthirsty, slanderous, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and stupid?'
`Do you think', said Martin, `that hawks have always eaten pidgeons when they find them?'
`Yes, no doubt,' said Candide.
`Well then,' said Martin, `if hawks have always had the same character, why do you expect men to have changed theirs?'
`Oh!' said Candide, `there's a big difference, because free will ...'
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