It is a matter of argument whether we should wonder at the speed with which huan kind has mastered a hostile environment, and so created the industrialized world we now inhabit, or, alternatively, despair at the almost agonizing slowness with which primitive man raised himself from such a low position to one of comparative plenty. ..... Should not the process of the ever-increasing speed of development have begun thousands of years ago, instead of a mere hundred?
――東京大学 〔1〕―(A)――83年