II 



DESIGN 



EVERY individual is so constituted that he has an 

 inherent preference for certain things; just as 

 each has his own peculiar and individual personality, 

 stamped from within, in color and form, upon the 

 body which his fellows see and know. And this 

 strongly marked, inherent preference for the thing ad- 

 mired, along with an equally strong prejudice against 

 the thing unfavored, shared by all of us, makes coun- 

 sel of a certain sort almost certainly futile. All of 

 which I think is particularly true of ourselves as 

 Americans; we know what we like, each one of us 

 and we know it hard. That there may happen to be 

 flocks of sheep minds going en masse in this or that 

 direction, or that the direction in which any given 

 flock is traveling frequently changes, does not lessen 

 the fact that our preferences are decided and dis- 

 tinctly formed and that we are well aware of them. 

 So among the five classes into which the old garden 



designs range themselves, each of us will probably 



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