There can be only one permanent revolution — a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy In early March, 1776 a new virus emerged from a coastal town in Scotland, swept into Europe and from there across the rest of the world, becoming a global pandemic and upending economies. The virus, which initially infected the brain but…