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And then in the fulness of time there would be a restitution of all things. Everything would come round regularly again exactly as it had been before. To us who have been taught to pant for progress, this seems a dreary prospect. But the Stoics were consistent Optimists, and did not ask for a change in what was best.
That so many of the world's benefactors are doomed to incalculable torments here on earth may be a good argument for immortality, but for Divine Providence it is no better evidence than the Lisbon earthquake which so startled the optimists and thinking men of the last century.
The house belonged to one of those proprietors in whom there is a foregone and profound horror of repairs and decoration, one of the men who regard their position as Paris house-owners as a business. In the vast chain of moral species, these people hold a middle place between the miser and the usurer. Optimists in their own interests, they are all faithful to the Austrian status quo.
Why did society constantly decline for four hundred years, with that civilization which was its boast and hope? Oh, ye optimists, who talk so glibly about the natural and necessary progress of humanity, why was the Roman Empire swept away, with all its material glories, to give place to such a state of society as I have just briefly described?
I was neither seeing nor hearing from the Ellerslys, father or son; but, as I knew why, I was not disquieted. I had made them temporarily easy in their finances just before that dinner, and they, being fatuous, incurable optimists, were probably imagining they would never need me again.
I could hear the echo of sad voices curbing the optimists: "The Germans are still at Noyon!" Well they are not at Noyon now. They've been gone for many moons. Yet there's a look on the faces of the people in the town a look when they come to the windows or doors of their houses, or when they hear a sudden noise in the street which makes those moons seem never to have waned.
But this is not an attitude that can be long maintained by any vigorous and temperamentally hopeful person. Of course, if it were the truth, one would have to acquiesce. Some people believe that by living on sour milk one can achieve immortality. Such optimists are answered by a mere refutation; it is not necessary to go on and point out some other way of escaping death.
The optimists The foreigners Scott and Buchanan Gladstone Foreign opinion and action Both the extremes to be put down Spain Fremont's campaign against Jackson Seward's circular General Scott's gift "O, could I go to a camp!"
Otherwise this third step in his Washington education would have been his last. On that line, the problem of progress was not soluble, whatever the optimists and orators might say or, for that matter, whatever they might think. George Washington could not be reached on Boston lines.
And the result of the struggle has been in Hungary a decay of political standards, a corruption of public life, such as fills even the greatest optimists with despair. Hungary and Magyar Misrule.
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