We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly.
Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.
Human kind cannot bear much reality.