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.
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