Most of the sentiments being expressed in this thread were familiar to the ancient Greeks, and Voltaire provided the definitive statement a 250 years ago:

«Presque toute l'histoire est une suite d'atrocités inutiles»

---Voltaire, Essai sur l'histoire générale, 1756.




John Gilmore
Ashland, MA 01721-1817
USA

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