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whom an ancient instinct has been rehabilitated, or 
one who has been born with a novel mind-body pat- 
tern, there are possibilities in him of up-grade 
development. Repression may make a criminal of 
the stowaway who might have been a great explorer, 
a poacher of one who might have been a naturalist- 
traveler, or a “rolling-stone” of one who might 
have been a scholar-gipsy. In the course of life, 
especially after experiences like those of the Great 
War, many who were for a time restless may settle 
down enriched, while others who had a strong dose 
of the “gene determining domesticity’ may use- 
fully indulge the assertion of a new inclination to 
rove. What we venture to suggest is that these 
things—especially everything that shakes us from 
humdrum and what Shakespeare called “ life-harm- 
ing heaviness”—may be made to work together 
for good, 
