To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized — perhaps too much for our own good — in all sorts of social grace and decorum. But to consider ourselves as having reached morality — for that, much is lacking.


Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View (1784)


To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized — perhaps too much for our own good — in all sorts of social grace...

To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized — perhaps too much for our own good — in all sorts of social grace...

To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized — perhaps too much for our own good — in all sorts of social grace...

To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized — perhaps too much for our own good — in all sorts of social grace...