The nation was in the midst of an economic development which needed before everything else to have a mature and careful leader who was honoured 76 and trusted by all classes, and who would be able to effect some work of reconciliation between them; when suddenly there stood in the place of a most conservative statesman an impetuous young man who was not intimately connected with industrial life, who had for a long time made himself unpopular with party politicians, and whom even his admirers in the land seemed hardly to trust on account of his hasty and determined impetuosity.
— from The Americans by Hugo Münsterberg