Optimist Or Pessimist

Time and fate have mocked us all, be we great or be we small. The same temptations Jesus thwarted the Church, I fear, has ofttimes courted. Luther preached before the throne: "The just shall live by faith alone." Yet ""freedom" in a peasant's ears filled great lords with dread and fears. "Workers, unite!" was Karl Marx's plea. The aftermath is plain to see. A pacifist brought forth the bomb, a paradox God save us from. Man's fate, which lies beyond our ken, must be: (for optimists:) to fail and strive again. (for pessimists:) to strive and fail again.