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The Battle Against Present-Day Restlessness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

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Noise and haste brand our times….’ No novel statement, this: we have all heard it in some form or other, and most people, at least in the Western world, surely agree. We are slaves—the very watch on our wrist a sign of servitude—we have ‘no time', ‘no rest'; ‘Angina Temporis’ (as Dr Bramesfeld terms it) is a common disease. It is a fact that, even if a few free days do come our way, we are no longer caplable of relaxing; restless activity holds us entirely in its power. Man, his nerves tense and his mind fuddled, finds no shelter of peace awaiting him when he is ejected nightly from office or factory; wearily he reaches home, only to plunge himself into so-called amusements. His money is taken from him and in return he becomes momentarily intoxicated with unhealthy, forced excitment, but there is neither peace nor lasting satisfaction in it.

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Research Article
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Copyright © 1956 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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Freely translated and adapted by Sister M. Nicolas, O.P., from the German: Gegne die Unrast der Zeit, in the March number of Die Stimmen der Zeit, Herder.