.... World history is more of a rake's progress than a conservation of 'goods'. It is a criminal dissipation of noble things.... We must admit in our own age the possibility of serious and possibly uncorrectable deprivations, and the clearer we see where they reside the more we shall be alive to our achievements in other directions, or even if we don't like the look of things at all, at least we shall be less easily deceived by this false scent and that, which is something, when there is much to deceive us.
- David Jones, Art in Relation to War in The Dying Gaul and Other Writings (1978)
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