Wise words to ponder in summer

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‘The insolubility of a problem has never deterred men and women from confidently propounding solutions. The method adopted is always the same: that of over-simplification. Thus, all but the immediate antecedents of the event under consideration are ignored. At the same time, all embarrassing complexities are mentally abolished. The event is thus made to seem simple enough to admit explanation in terms of a very few ’causes’, perhaps even only one. Not unnaturally the results are disappointing.”

Aldous Huxley. Grey Eminence: A Study in Religion & Politics. The MacMillan Company of Canada, Toronto, 1941.