The Best of All Possible Worlds
Posted on Saturday, January 10, 2009, at 6:58 pm, by Cadwalader Crabtree.
Our latest blank notecard features a quotation that pretty much sums up Voltaire’s Candide (1759) and its mockery of Leibniz’s philosophical optimism. The card also pretty well sums up our general attitude here at Archelaus. Just for fun, we are making it available in the original French, for anyone who might prefer it so.
The illustration is from John Sterling Kingsley, ed., The Riverside Natural History (Cambridge, Mass., 1888). It depicts a slender loris (stenops gracilis), a nocturnal primate from southern India and Sri Lanka.
