...literature must always be about gloom of one sort or another, on the principle that there is nothing interesting to be said about happy people. - Theodore Zeldin

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...literature must always be about gloom of one sort or another, on the principle that there is nothing interesting to be said about happy people.

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Theodore Zeldin (born 22 August 1933) is a British philosopher, historian, and writer.

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Самой давней целью человечества было воспроизводство человечества в бóльших объемах. Когда-то это означало иметь как можно больше детей. Но со временем важнее стало не количество
детей, а проявляемая к ним доброта. Сегодня идеал человечества — это прежде всего идеал человечности, заботы и доброты, актуальный на все времена и для каждого живого существа. Первые отголоски этого исторического сдвига звучали много веков назад,
но сейчас он охватил значительную часть мира.

Each civilization, each nation, each family, each profession, each sex and each class has its own history. Humans have so far been interested mainly in their own private roots, and have therefore never claimed the whole of the inheritance into which they were born, the legacy of everybody’s past experience. Each generation searches only for what it thinks it lacks, and recognizes only what it knows already.

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