ESOTERIC PERIPATETICISM. 



I walk about ; not to and from. CHARLES LAMB. 



TAKING a walk is something different 

 from traveling afoot. The latter I may do 

 when on my way to the cars or the shop ; 

 but my neighbor, seeing me at such times, 



never says to himself, " Mr. is taking 



a walk." He knows I cannot be doing that, 

 so long as I am walking for the sake of get- 

 ting somewhere. Even the common people 

 understand that utilitarianism has nothing 

 to do with the true peripatetic philosophy. 



The disciples of this philosophy, the no- 

 ble fraternity of saunterers, among whom I 

 modestly enroll myself, are not greatly con- 

 cerned with any kind of merely physical ac- 

 tivity. They believe that everything has 

 both a lower and a higher use ; and that in 

 the order of evolution the lower precedes 

 the higher. Time was when walking 

 going erect on one's hind limbs was a 

 rare accomplishment, sufficient of itself to 



