Provoke/ The years to bring the inevitable yoke.

O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

In that sense, he didn't sit still. He tried in various ways to stimulate and even provoke the department.

There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.

To fear the inevitable is to be ignorant.