Wit & Attitude Quote by Charles Lamb

April arrives like a yearly reset button, and Lamb treats it as a cruel joke. Spring is supposed to be the season of renewal: fresh air, fresh starts, a world rinsed clean. His line punctures that pastoral script with a curt inventory check. The calendar turns, the blossoms do their part, and humanity still manages to be itself - only louder, dumber, and more plentiful. The sting comes from the mock-biblical diction ("cometh", "hath"), a high-sermon register deployed to deliver a low opinion. He borrows the cadences of moral authority to announce that moral improvement is not, in fact, on schedule.

The specific intent is less misanthropy for its own sake than a critic's weary clarity: time doesn't educate people automatically. April is a convenient symbol because it trades on cultural expectation. If any month promises uplift, it's this one; so Lamb's disappointment hits harder. The joke is also statistical and psychological. "As far as I can see" admits the limits of perception even as it indicts the crowd. Maybe the world isn't getting worse; maybe Lamb is simply getting older, less charmed, more sensitive to foolishness - the classic effect of accumulated experience.

Context matters: Lamb writes in the long wake of revolution, industrial acceleration, expanding print culture, and swelling cities. The "more fools" can be read as a reaction to modernity's noise: more people speaking, more opinions circulating, more occasions for public stupidity. It's a crisp Romantic-era counterspell to the myth of progress, delivered with the light, lethal touch of an essayist who knows that cynicism lands best when it sounds like a hymn.