Sunday, September 01, 2019
The Question of Questions
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, Book I, Chapter 1 (Proem), ยง 4:
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And the question of questions now is: What part of that exploded Past, the ruins and dust of which still darken all the air, will continually gravitate back to us; be reshaped, transformed, readapted, that so, in new figures, under new conditions, it may enrich and nourish us again?