“There are times which are not ordinary, and in such times it is not enough to follow the road. It is necessary to know where it leads, and, if it leads nowhere, to follow another. The search for another involves reflection, which is uncongenial to the bustling of people who describe themselves as practical, because they take things as they are and leave them as they are.”

—R.H Tawney, The Acquisitive Society (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1920), 2.

How fitting for our times!