Destruction Socks
Description: Illustration found in the book entitled "The English Dance of Death." After the period of the stylish baroque Dance of Death, the late 18th and 19th Centuries. The artist of this piece, Thomas Rowlandson, imagines the death waiting for one of the many vices/modern tools of destruction at the time to take hold and be perpetuated throughout the English Empire. This piece is a satiric commentary on the influence English culture during the time.
Description: Denis Diderot: What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions. All these revolutions show a continual tendency to destruction; a swift succession of beings who follow one another, press forward, and vanish; a fleeting symmetry; the order of a moment. I reproached you just now with estimating the perfection of things by your own capacity; and I might accuse you here of measuring its duration by the length of your own days. You judge of the continuous existence of the world, as an ephemeral insect might judge of yours. The world is eternal for you, as you are eternal to the being that lives but for one instant. Yet the insect is the more reasonable of the two...
