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To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. It is a very serious task, young man, and possibly a tragic one.
Source: Father Jacobus, in The Glass Bead Game, ch. 4, 1943.
-- Hermann Hesse, (Jul 2 1877-1962), German-Swiss novelist; He dealt with man's breaking out of the established modes of civilization to find his essential spirit.