The Only Thing One Can't Say About the History of the World

Doostoyevsky said, in short, one may say anything about the history of the world. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational. And indeed, this is the odd thing that is continually happening. There are those who make it their object to live all their lives as morally and rationally as possible. But these very people, sooner or later, have been false to themselves. That's a precursor of fridian ideas,. playing some queer trick, often a most unseemly one. Now i ask you, what can be expected of man, since he is a being endowed with such strange qualities? Shower upon him every earthly blessing. Drown him...