I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Horror, detective fiction
General philosophical statement
Undated (common attribution)
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Strange & Unusual