The problem is that history is not a dialectic progression but a biome, a swamp where ideas chase each other around and wallow and where drupelets of their larvae cluster and then hatch to devour siblings.

Eugene Lim
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The problem is that history is not a dialectic progression but a biome, a swamp where ideas chase each other around and wallow and where drupelets of their larvae cluster and then hatch to devour siblings. The quote above was written by Oscar Wilde in his essay “The Soul of Man Under Socialism” which was published in the newspaper 'The Daily Chronicle' in 1891. It appears in his book The Happy Prince and Other Tales, which was published in 1893.

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