James Branch Cabell

Still, it is a pity we no longer really notice that material world which we unthinkingly contemn. Much abominable talk about “the un-​wholesome restlessness of modern life” is thus bred by our blindness to the fact that restlessness is pre-​eminently a natural trait.

The fictional author John Charteris in James Branch Cabell’s Beyond Life: Dizaine des Démiurges (1919), Chapter V, “Which Considers the Reactionary,” §8.