I knew it! Multitasking is not a modern dissaee! Here's another good one: Try as you will, you get behind in the race, in spite of yourself. It's an incessant strain to keep pace… And still you lose ground. Science empties its discoveries on you so fast that you stagger beneath them in hopeless bewilderment… Everything is high pressure. Human nature can't endure much more. A quotation from last week's newspaper? No. This ran in the Atlantic Journal on June 16, 1833.