I think science fiction is very interesting in the way that it predicted some things highly accurately and didn't predict other things very well at all.
In people of their own station, therefore, they regard such excesses with but a small degree of disapprobation, and censure them either very slightly or not at all.
As he has never felt any ill effects after flying himself, the schedule he lays down is so exact that the employee is too exhausted to carry it out satisfactorily.