The killer is "historical progress" - around Montaigne's time they still debated if the (golden age) ancients or the moderns had it. Afterwards they lost all d

The killer is "historical progress" - around Montaigne's time they still debated if the (golden age) ancients or the moderns had it. Afterwards they lost all doubt. What people will do for a little aspirin ... (Marx went to town on it, paradise on earth was at hand. Scientifically, of course.)