Don Q, or for that matter those that look always found what he was looking for, yep.

Lyceum. is an educational institution often a school of secondary education, or a public hall used for cultural events like concerts. Don Q on his journeys may well have learned more on the trip itself than in the "public hall".

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Cicero declared that "He who does not know history is destined to remain a child." The ideas of Voltaire (in Candide), Cervantes (in Don Quixote), and William Shakespeare (in Hamlet) illustrate how men remain children because of their ignorance or denial of the history of mankind, which is a history of corruption, greed, violence, and deceit. As long as an individual lives in ignorance of the past, he will see every experience as utterly new and will deal with that experience in the same way as a child who lives with no storehouse of knowledge or wisdom which would allow him to avoid past mistakes. The message of Voltaire's Candide is that the world in which we live is populated with people who live primarily in order to get what they want, using whatever means necessary, and always looking for innocent victims of whom they can take advantage.

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It seems to me that both Quixote and Voltaire often attacked religious and philosophical optimism. Both authors might find those in today's world who "picket and protest" to "get what they want" at the expense of society worthy of a story or two.........................

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Don Q. said.............and be not dazed

when thou findest thyself exposed to

the light of that sun

of beauty thou art going to seek.