About the book: year / "Once upon a time, Buckle, in his “History of the Civilization of England,” argued that humanity has not made any progress in the matter of morality. Many panegyrists of the “good old days” go even further, saying that the people of this fin de siècle are a completely immoral, perverted generation that pursues only pleasure and profit. There is no need to investigate whether there ever was a golden age with completely innocent and virtuous people, and also whether the age of Plato or any other of the past centuries was more honest and moral than our time…»