When a new problem becomes greater than the human scale can cope with, the mind instinctively shrinks and sleeps.
"A Peculiar War to fight": Letter to Robert J. Leuver, C.M.F., in The Medium and the Light (1999), p 91
Simultaneous man is, paradoxically, traditional and simple in his tastes, preferring the human scale to the ancient grandeur which are no longer difficult to achieve.