Or Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by
Francois Voltaire
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2005
"All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds"
It was the indifferent shrug and callous inertia that this "optimism" concealed which so angered Voltaire, who found the "all for the best" approach a patently inadequate response to suffering, to natural disasters, not to mention the...