Candide card game faro11/25/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Candide insisted that there was some good in the world, but the pessimistic Martin only replied that he had never seen it. Martin then summed up the miseries of the world - personal injustice and cruelties a million regimented assassins sweeping over Europe as one nation warred against another the envies, cares, and anxieties even in supposedly cultured cities. He conceded that in view of what he had seen, God must have abandoned the world to some malevolent being - with the exception of Eldorado. ![]() In the course of their discussion, Martin told Candide that he was not a Socinian but a Manichean (one who, according to an ancient Persian system, believed that man's soul, sprung from the kingdom of light, seeks escape from the body, the kingdom of darkness). Especially at the end of a meal, he inclined toward Pangloss' philosophy once more. But Candide had one thing to sustain him: the hope of seeing Cunégonde again, and he still had some Eldoradoan gold and diamonds. Candide and Martin, as the old man identified himself, set sail for Bordeaux, and the topic of moral and physical evil was the dominant one discussed by the two during the voyage, for both had suffered much. ![]()
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