He adds humbly that perhaps he was superior to the common run of men in noticing things which easily escape attention, and in observing them carefully.
The distinct willingness of the general public to either turn away or ignore its existence in the first place is what gives underground its identity, not some farcical public inability to locate it.
This restraint largely explains her lack of popular success during her lifetime, even if her talent did not go completely unrecognized by her eighteenth-century French contemporaries.
Many people soothe their consciences by purchasing only free-range fowl and eggs, blissfully ignorant that "free range" has very little practical significance.
We must certainly do what we can to prevent illness and disability, but we must be careful that a focus on robust ageing does not lead us to neglect the frail, the demented and the dying.