Excerpt from Regeneration: A Reply to Max Nordau
Voltaire said that if all the celestial bodies are inhabited, our earth must be the madhouse of the universe. To us who know the era of the great cynic only as recorded by the history of Dryasdusts, and the flippant memoirs and autobiographies of his contemporaries, his biting sarcasm cannot be considered undeserved. But, with regard to our own times, most of us would probably hesitate to band our present state of culture, our modern civilization, as a fool"s paradise.
It is a truism that an historical epoch can only be correctly studied at a distance in time, as the outlines of a mountain can only be studied at a distance in space.
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