oss Paraguay, his adventures multiply. He is nearly eaten by the local Biglug Indians. Fortunately, however, since Candide has killed one of the Jesuits, the Biglugs’ enemy, he is set free and permitted to continue on his journey. The journey is interrupted when Candide and Cacambo set off on a canoe trip down an unknown river. The uncontrollable river carries them along until they crash on the shores of Eldorado, the golden country where everything is gold, even the mud, and the pebbles in the road are diamonds and emeralds. El Dorado was Voltaire’s vision of a perfect society in his own eyes. This vision originated from the beliefs and ideas of Sir Thomas Moore Utopia. The vision Voltaire has is the best of all possible worlds to him. The world that Voltaire has created is a world of perfect harmony and brotherhood. In this country, you are your own king and have your own free will to choose whatever you want in life. This way of life is a utopian theory thought throughout all El Dorado.

Since society was still mostly rural in the eighteenth century, the peasants were the largest social group, making up as much as 85 percent of Europe's population. There were rather wide differences, however, between peasants from area to area. The most important distinction at least legally was between the free peasant and the serf. Peasants Serfdom had come late to the east having largely been imposed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Peasants in eastern Europe were bound to the lord's estate, had to provide labor services on the lord's land, and could not marry or move without permission and payment of a tax. The peasants had a very hard life to live; their diet consisted mainly of bread and vegetables that were not given to the lords. They mainly drank wine; beer and water if they could find some that was not stagnate of bugs and animal droppings. Poverty among the peasants was very highly visible problem in the 18th century. There was a 3 to 5 percent of the population that depended on the offerings of others to survive. Earlier in Europe, beggars were seen as children of god and that Christians would help them survive, but the 18th century brought about new thoughts about the poor. It was not a custom now to give to the poor, because the beggars were showing idleness and that led to crime.

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