‘Let us not be misled by feverish enterprising zeal and technical progress; these are only a hectic flush on the cheeks of an organism already marked down for death. Never before has man experienced such opportunities in life as he does today: but show me one man who is happy; one class which is contented, or a nation that does not feel threatened in its very existence. Surrounded by all the gifts of civilization, in the Croesian wealth of spiritual and material goods we all are more and more stricken by the persistent sense of uncertainty, distress, and discomfort.’
