"The world is too big for us. Too much is going on. Too many crimes. Too
much violence and excitement. Try as you will, you get behind in the race
in spite of yourself. It's a constant strain to keep pace --- and still,
you lose ground. Science empties its discoveries on you so fast that you
stagger beneath them in hopeless bewilderment. The political world now
changes so rapidly you’re out of breath trying to keep pace with who’s in
and who’s out. Everything is high pressure. Human nature can’t endure much
more!”

Atlantic Journal June 16, 1833