What did sir thomas browne (1605-1682) say about the past and age of humanity?

And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy those that shall live in the next, much less three or four hundred Years hence, when no Man can comfortably imagine what Face this World will carry. -Letter to a Friend

answer; /// the above statement is (false); the smaller states objected to the virginia plan because they would have fewer votes that the larger states;