In criticizing his own society, Voltaire isolated three “great evils”: boredom, vice, and poverty. Do you think he was on target for the eighteenth century? What evils do you think he would single out in today’s society?
In criticizing his own society, Voltaire isolated three “great evils”: boredom, vice, and poverty. Do you think he was on target for the eighteenth century? What evils do you think he would single out in today’s society?