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world in which we live and all its organic 

 creatures. 



And when in later years we went out into the 

 world and came to choose our own paths and to 

 adopt mental and religious garbs of our own 

 choosing, the subconscious influence of the new 

 teaching everywhere made itself felt, determin- 

 ing a receptive attitude of mind that presaged 

 the new intellectual era. 



If ever there was a time when it was true that 

 "the old order changeth" in the profoundest 

 application of the words to the most sacred 

 beliefs of men, that time was the closing epoch 

 of the nineteenth century. 



Play and Work 



It is worth while to dwell on these less tan- 

 gible aspects of the environment of boyhood, 

 because their influence was probably more impor- 

 tant than that of many events that have to do 

 with the regular routine of the workaday world 



As to that routine not much need be said, 

 because there was little associated with it that 

 was individual or characteristic or that was 

 largely influential in determining the activities 

 of my later years. 



The recreations of such scant leisure hours as 

 the New England child of this period could find 



