When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

当我还是个孩子的时候，人们只是简单地环顾四周，并感到适度的快乐;今天，他们远眺七大洋之外，把自己埋在齐腰深的消息之中，总的来说，他们的所见所闻使他们感到难以言表的悲伤。