They let a bittersome poison creep into their hearts, concerning the failings of people.

a nice way of putting it

Now that mechanical science has realised his ancient dreams of flight and sejunct communication, he is the advance guard of the psychologist on the watch for new emotions, new vibrations sensible to faculties as yet ill understood.

I was eating salads, young coconut, and livioli, a raw-food version of ravioli, which was actually really good, even for a pastaholic.