"Our leaders strain every nerve,and with success,to get the next war going,while the rest of us,meanwhile,dance the foxtrot,earn money,and eat chocolates.In such a time the world must indeed cut a poor figure.Let us hope that other times were better,and will be better again,richer,broader and deeper.But that is no help to us now,and perhaps it has always been the same-"
hesse___translated from the german 1929