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hardships. The Englishman by habit and training 

 has no such objections. He likes to be taken care of, 

 financially, personally, and everlastingly. That is 

 his ideal of life. If he can be taken care of better 

 by employing three hundred porters and packing 

 eight tin trunks of personal effects as I have seen 

 it done he will so employ and take. That is 

 all right: he likes it. 



But the American does not like it. A good deal 

 of the fun for him is in going light, in matching him- 

 self against his environment. It is no fun to him 

 to carry his complete little civilization along with 

 him, laboriously. If he must have cotton wool, let 

 it be as little cotton wool as possible. He likes to 

 be comfortable; but he likes to be comfortable with 

 the minimum of means. Striking just the proper 

 balance somehow adds to his interest in the game. 

 And how he does object to that ever-recurring 

 thought that he is such a helpless mollusc that 

 it requires a small regiment to get him safely around 

 the country! 



Both means are perfectly legitimate, of course; 

 and neither view is open to criticism. All either 

 man is justified in saying is that he, personally, 

 wouldn't get much fun out of doing it the other way. 

 As a matter of fact, human nature generally goes 

 beyond its justifications and is prone to criticise. 



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