A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair -- why, this is the desideratum of mankind.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex Software, 1994.
-- John Jay Chapman, (Mar 2 1862-1933), US poet, dramatist, critic; He attacked the get-rich-quick morality of the post-Civil War Gilded Age in political action and in his writings.