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whom an ancient instinct has been rehabilitated, or 

 one who has been born with a novel mind-body pat- 

 tern, there are possibilities in him of up-grade 

 development. Repression may make a criminal of 

 the stowaway who might have been a great explorer, 

 a poacher of one who might have been a naturalist- 

 traveler, or a " rolling-stone " of one who might 

 have been a scholar-gipsy. In the course of life, 

 especially after experiences like those of the Great 

 War, many who were for a time restless may settle 

 down enriched, while others who had a strong dose 

 of the " gene determining domesticity " may use- 

 fully indulge the assertion of a new inclination to 

 rove. What we venture to suggest is that these 

 things especially everything that shakes us from 

 humdrum and what Shakespeare called " life-harm- 

 ing heaviness" may be made to work together 

 for good. 



