Reflections on Muddied Waters

One morning I awoke with the disquieting feeling that I had been here before; confronted with a war, a sagging economy, the prospect of a cut in research funds, and a generation gap. A look at past Anglo-American wars and recessions over a 300-year period shows that they occur every 25 years on the average, i. e., about every generation. There are signs that the rising generation will bail us out.