Make sure you talk about humility. Talk about humility again. How do we quantify the lost opportunities and the knowledge associated with what Lukács called, "strange, secret savour,"? In this case, the cyclical nature of this influence constantly in a state of revision and revival. An axiomatic möbius statement. Is Science incessant? Some think so. The rise of the technocrat, to borrow a phrase from W. H. G. Armitage is a social history. Is there any other kind?