"I wrote "The Philosophy of Disenchantment," which is, I think, the gloomiest and worst book ever published. Out of sheer laziness, I then produced a history of atheism, "The Anatomy of Negation," which has been honored by international dislike. Need I state that of all my children it is the one that I prefer?" -Edgar Saltus "Returning to an estimate of Saltus, let us sum up by saying we have in him a temperament saturated with pessimism which expresses itself by the beautiful decoration of sinister themes. To see grandeurs in vast horrors is the last thing a commonplace person can do....
"I wrote "The Philosophy of Disenchantment," which is, I think, the gloomiest and worst book ever published. Out of sheer laziness, I then produced a ...