CHAPTER I 

 THE PROBLEM 



The ancients taught that the fabric of 

 our lives is woven by the sisters of destiny 

 and that our future is in their hands. This 

 fatahstic doctrine survives to our day. 

 Not being versed in the lore of classical 

 mythology I will enumerate under their 

 modern titles some of the fates of human 

 destiny as now recognized. 



I. The eldest sister is heredity, stern- 

 faced, perdurable, conservator of good 

 and evil, mostly good. 2. Next comes 

 gestation, the kindly protecting nurse. 

 3. Birth, a fickle goddess, casting the lot 

 now into a hovel, now a palace. 4. Nur- 

 ture, presiding over the establishment of 

 physical and social norms. 5. Education, 

 Minerva, the school-mistress of intellec- 

 tual norms. 6. Religion, the moral norms. 

 7. Art, the esthetic norms. 8. Voca- 

 tion, craftsmanship, production, economic 

 norms. 9. Politics, civic norms. 10. Sex, 

 emotional norms, domestic norms. 



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