From Snakecharmers in Texas: Essays 1980 - 1987, by Clive James
JACOB BURCKHARDT
"Nevertheless there was no intention to be soothing in Burckhardt's belief - expounded in Weltgeschichtliche Betrachtungen - that pessimism leads to a false view of history. Pessimism he merely distrusted. Optimism he loathed."
From On the Library Coffee-Table
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