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The genius of man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. there is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. i asked for bread and was given a tranquilliser.
-Malcolm Muggeridge
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The Genius Of Man In Our Time

Malcolm Muggeridge
The genius of man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. there is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. i asked for bread and was given a tranquilliser.
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