Henry Adams Quote

Who, then, is right? How can we all be right? Half of our wise men declare that the world is going straight to perdition; the other half that it is fast becoming perfect. Both cannot be right.

Madeleine Lee in Ch. IV - Democracy: An American Novel (1880)

Who, then, is right? How can we all be right? Half of our wise men declare that the world is going straight to perdition; the other half that it is...

Who, then, is right? How can we all be right? Half of our wise men declare that the world is going straight to perdition; the other half that it is...

Who, then, is right? How can we all be right? Half of our wise men declare that the world is going straight to perdition; the other half that it is...

Who, then, is right? How can we all be right? Half of our wise men declare that the world is going straight to perdition; the other half that it is...