/lit/ - Literature

More importantly: where did they go? Even 18th Century Europeans look hideous compared to civilized antiquity. What they don't tell you when they talk about skull measuring is that the cephalic index of ancient statues was larger than the largest cephalic index of today. One must not be confused because of this; it is from there alone that the Greek and Assyrian statues look so much more handsome than the models of today.

I oftentimes wonder what the political discourse was in the 17th or 18th Century Europe. Only a minority of the population participated in politics, but they can't have agreed in everything right? I imagine them discussing over how things should be done and being in constant disagreement with each other and many apolitical readers entertaining themselves daily in the political quarrels of the active population, but where are those texts?