In the new found world of optimism, men like Moliere(whom penned Tartuffe') and Voltaire were not pecimists, but realists. Voltaire was actually run out of France for his satirical view of the optimistic world, Candide'. Candide' focused on the falsehoods in the positive' theories developed in the Renaissance; if everything comes from God, then disease comes from God and we should rejoice in being ill. Candide' so remarkably spit in the eye of the nave optimists that it could not be argued so it was simply banned. Voltaire didn't just go after the ideas o...

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