These converge into three important issues: stem cell potency, safe limits of the proinflammatory cytokines that do not cause harm to the transplant, and their tissue engraftability.

Yet it seems to me indeed at times that all this present commercial civilisation is no more than my poor uncle's career writ large, a swelling, thinning bubble of assurances; that its arithmetic is just as unsound, its dividends as ill-advised, its ultimate aim as vague and forgotten; […]

He is going back to his native place on vacation.

Yes, you /can/ win by sitting in the wheels consistently and never doing any work. But it isn't admirable.