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The sickness unto death on being human in the age of ecology.
"NOTHING," observed Dr Johnson, "can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature." In fact, the substance of this sentence is almost the definition of a quotable quote. We tend to go back again and again to those nicely turned phrases which, in some way, reinforce our general view of human nature. One such quote comes from the Latin poet Horace (65-8 BC). It has to do with the general tendency of older folk to denounce the depravity of the present time and to look back to the days of their youth when things were so much better. Very often, we get just the drastically shortened Latin version--laudator temporis acti. But Horace is much more ...
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