HUMAN LIFE 



tion of most human beings most of the 

 days. The matters that do so occupy 

 our principal attention are our work and 

 recreation, our clothes and food, our 

 household affairs, our health and our 

 looks, our income, expenditures and sav- 

 ings, the growing up of our children and 

 the growing old of ourselves, our family 

 and social relations, our personal con- 

 tacts with people and our opinions of 

 them. We think and talk about books 

 and music and pictures, about railways 

 and bridges and motor cars, about scenery 

 and climate and hotels, about politics 

 and diplomacy and governments. And 

 all the time we give a fascinated attention 

 to the particular human beings con- 

 nected with these things, especially the 

 ones we personally know or see. We note 

 and discuss their particular idiosyncrasies, 

 their likenesses and differences; we com- 

 pare them with each other and with 

 ourselves. We are concerned, constantly 

 and immensely, with individuals. 

 It is right here, I believe, that we have a 

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