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as the meteor seeks the earth. Even when we are separate we 

 talk in terms of the crowd. To go alone is unusual. When we go 

 by ourselves we write a book about it. 



What I mean to say is that human beings express habit and 

 habitat, as do other animals. We are so accustomed to the habits 

 that we think of them only to approve or to criticize. Yet essen- 

 tially the habits of John Smith the Man are as interesting in them- 

 selves as are those of Lobo the Wolf, Black Beauty the Horse, or 

 the Cat that Walked by its Wild Lone. But we fail to observe 

 John Smith objectively. 



As there are laws of the Pack and laws of the Jungle, so are there 

 laws of the Camp of Homo. At first the laws of the Pack and the 

 Jungle and the Camp were probably much the same; but the 

 Camp became crafty, self-willed, and it made weapons against the 

 others. These weapons it turned also against the Other Camp. 

 The Camp has come a long journey since then, but it has carried 

 its weapons all the way. 



The Camp found Speech and Handicraft. It found Importance, 

 and set down its thoughts on stone and ivory and bones. It found 

 Paper. Then it kept Records. Then did Literature begin. And 

 in due time Men knew that they were Men, and wrote down the 

 joy they had in thinking. 



They thought about themselves and about Beings of another 

 world; and so great and important were these Beings that Man 

 fashioned them in his own image and endowed them with his own 

 qualities. So Man began to speculate, and to weave a vast web of 

 fancy about himself and the Stars and the Things He Does Not 

 Know. This web we call Literature, Philosophy, Art, Religion, — 

 what you will. 



And in due time Man came to be curious about the Things- 

 Around-Him. He pried into them. He looked into crevices in 

 rocks, ran his fingers along the seams of wood, found new metals, 

 counted the eggs in a thousand nests, unravelled the flowers, 

 searched for the alchemy, explored every wonder, enciphered the 

 universe in formula and symbol. At some point in this long 

 process he wrote down what he saw on papyrus or pieces of paper; 

 then was Science born. 



Very exact is Observation and very direct and true are Results. 

 But these are first observations and first results. When we look 

 again we begin to doubt. When we make a Conclusion we 



