Mary Wollstonecraft Quote

The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.


The French Revolution, Bk. V, ch. 4 (1794)


The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.

The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.

The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.

The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.