Mrs Dalloway

The contemporary world in which Virginia Woolf was
brought up and produced her work has witnessed more than one
crisis and upheaval.
The method of science with its objective of tested truth and
its requisitions of precision in the observation of facts has established
an accuracy of detail and a spirit of detachment. The growth
of science in this age, which eventually brought an enormous
progress in civilization followed by a vast movement in industry
and machinery, led to an increase of mental sickness and its products
of various other evils.