"(...) The family had a household oracle, a tutor named Pangloss. Young Candide absorved his teaching with the open-hearted simplicity of his age and nature. These teachings where metaphysico-theologo-cosmolonigological. Pangloss could prove to everybody's satisfaction that there is no effect without a cause: furthermore, that in this best of all possible worlds the Baron's castle was the finest of castles, and the Baroness the finest of all possible baronesses.
'It is demonstrable', Pangloss would say, 'that things cannot be other than they are. For, since everything is made for a purpose, everything must be for the best possible purpose. Noses, you observe, were made to support spectacles: consequentely, we have spectacles. Legs, it is plain, were created to wear breeches, and are supplied with them. Stone was made to be quarried, and built into castles: that is why his lordship has such a fine castle - for the greatest baron in the province must be of necessity also be the best housed. Pigs were made to be eaten: so we eat pork all the year round. It follows that those who say that everything is good are talking foolishly: what they should say is that everything is for the best."
Candide, Voltaire
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