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wherever possible. But where this cannot very 
well be done, where it will sacrifice conven- 
ience and directness and the point of instinc- 
tive entrance from the street, this walk may 
be made a part of the general design by some 
little touch such as the sundial in plate I (page 
38) : thus its position is vindicated and it is 
made a pleasant center in itself, instead of be- 
ing only a tolerated necessity. 
This point of entrance from the street, by 
the way, is another of those subtle things which 
instinct must govern — actual instinct in this 
case and not artificially directed instinct, as in 
the case of the walk. For no trick will serve 
to fix this point; it fixes itself, definitely and 
obstinately. The direction from which a place 
is approached has more to do with it perhaps 
than anything else, but the position of the house 
entrance complements this; so really it takes 
the two in combination to work the matter out. 
Again it is the impulse to save steps — the lazy 
human nature in us — that is at the bottom of 
the thing. Here we must let this impulse do 
its work uninterfered with; and there is no way 
of doing this except to experiment, on the 
ground. 
Given the house location, try approaching 
its entrance — its porch steps, if it is reached 
