Interesting.
When was it written?
The use of English indicates some time ago.
Tom Calen’s The Pandemic Sequence Trilogy now seems relevant.
Worth the time to read.
It sounds to me like the major prophets, esp. Isaiah and Jeremiah, meet the Deists.
I’m guessing written in 1774 (given the date you posted) in Italian with the English translation being made at some point before 1870.
Can you give a thumbnail sketch of who the writer is for people too lazy to google?
That’s amazing, especially if you read more around it, nit just the quote.
There are quite a few pages to read there in the usual google books scanned-appearing format, obviously a genius. Not something that can be quickly absorbed.
I can see why you are thinking about this type of thing now.
Does he complete the sentence, or just trail off into ellipses?
Or is that you?
The ‘civil disease’ about which he writes is clearly not an actual ‘disease’ but is meant to represent one of many possible political follies.
it seems the pace at which we are moving towards whatever can be included in Vico’s severe cyclical remedy has increased from when I posted this two months ago