For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.