Mr. Zangwill, criticizing very kindly a quiet
little comedy about devils which I happened to write, once remarked
that I was trying to put the clock back in philosophy; though he was so
generous as to add that I was putting the clock forward in drama. Since
then, and down to recent days, I have heard a great deal about the
impossibility of putting back the clock, especially to the Middle Ages-
or, as such critics would call them, the
Dark Ages. It strikes me as highly quaint that people should be so fond
of this figure of speech for fantastic and impossible reaction,
especially just now. For they are now regularly performing, twice a
year, a mere trick with time, the second half of which does invariably
consist of putting back the clock.
-April 26, 1919, Illustrated London News
Incidentally, here is a link to the "quiet little comedy about devils" referenced above.
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