Individualists would have little use for a device which would make them understand one another, for they would not care whether they understood one a… - Clifford D. Simak

And that day the cultural god of science had shone a bit less brightly, had died a little in the people's minds.

They would fail. We would always fail. We weren’t built to do anything but fail. We had the wrong kind of motives and we couldn’t change them. We had a built-in short-sightedness and an inherent selfishness and a self-concern that made it impossible to step out of the little human rut we traveled…

We have fallen on hard times of the spirit, with many of the people more concerned with fear of evil than contemplation of the good.