... remarks that it is for the best. He rationalizes that since the transmission of the syphilis could be traced back to the New World, and Christopher Columbus also brought back chocolate from the New World, all had worked to the best possible ends. Upon reading such a ridiculous anecdote one might laugh out loud, and while no doubt Voltaire wrote it with ... straight on till the last pages of the novel. After Candide, Pangloss, and all the others have experienced a lifetime of horrors--floggings, rapes, slavery, robberies, executions, disease, an earthquake, betrayals, war, famine, dissec...

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