This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools…

John Steinbeck
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This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow and disintegrate, man reaches, stumbles forward, painfully, mistakenly sometimes. Having stepped forward, he may slip back, but only half a step, never the full step back. ✨ John Steinbeck (2016). The Grapes of Wrath, p.119, Hamilton Books
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