The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. - Thomas Carlyle

Not the external and physical alone is now managed by machinery, but the internal and spiritual also. Here too nothing follows its spontaneous course, nothing is left to be accomplished by old natural methods. Everything has its cunningly devised implements, its preestablished apparatus; it is not done by hand, but by machinery.

Unless some Hero-worship, in its new appropriate form, can return, this world does not promise to be very habitable long.

For is not a Symbol ever, to him who has eyes for it, some dimmer or clearer revelation of the God-like?