A Great many people are afraid of the complexity of modern life. They long for the wings of a dove — for anything, in fact, which would enable them to flee from our many-sided and highly-organised world of to-day and get back to simple habits and simple needs — in short, “back to nature,” whatever that may mean. Such longings are wasted for the most part. In a day of apartment-houses and telephones and prepared foods and domestic science, complexity must be accepted...FROM THE BOOK