YOUNG THINGS 31 



and the deep-laid arrangements, beautifully simple withal, 

 for securing this. The child is as old as its parents, a chip 

 of the old block, a pendant from a continuous chain of 

 germ-cells. On the other hand, we see the expression of 

 what is perhaps even more primitive the tendency to 

 vary, to be something new, to be creative. The living 

 creature is a Proteus. In a deep sense, the little child 

 leads the race. And there is no time when we realise this 

 so much as in Spring, which, being the great season of 

 birth, is also the season of making all things new. 



