THE COUNTRY HOME [CHAPTER 
cost. Meanwhile you will never be comfortable or 
happy, or safe from pneumonia. But, however well 
you may have constructed your house, double win- 
dows for winter will often pay for themselves in 
conserved heat. 
This evolution of the house you will have seen 
has been simply an evolution of a human being. It 
has been yourself, learning to express yourself in 
different adjustments. As anyone gets to be better 
educated in his separate faculties, each of those 
faculties expresses itself in an apartment. A right 
sort of a house finds one out and reveals one to one’s 
self. The whole house, altogether, is the whole 
human being working out into expression and sep- 
arate functioning. Now all around us we set the 
birds to singing and the trees to growing, while at the 
heart of all this life the soul lives. Your house should 
be where you would seek yourself on a pleasant day, 
among the trees; and where of a stormy day you 
would like to find a retreat. Do as the crusta- 
ceans do: have a shell that you can use when you 
need it. You are yourself still more important 
than the wood or the brick that you have used. 
It is being made to express your feelings. You 
have not set it in a row along the roadside just 
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