'"The new great ethical attack has to be launched against the cruelties and dirtinesses and dishonesties which are sanctioned by everyday custom and extolled as part of our competitive theory of survival. Do you think you could educate people out of that frame of mind?"
Deryk assumed an expression of regretful worldliness.
"You can't alter human nature, sir," he objected.
"That, my dear Deryk, has been said in every generation and disproved by every generation. People are lazy; and peculiarly lazy, you'll find, when it comes to radical thinking..."'
from Midas and Son by Stephen McKenna (Chapter VI, Part III)
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