II 
DESIGN 
E VERY individual is so constituted that he has an 
inherent preference for certain things; just as 
each has his own peculiar and individual personality, 
stamped from within, in color and form, upon the 
body which his fellows see and know. And this 
strongly marked, inherent preference for the thing ad¬ 
mired, along with an equally strong prejudice against 
the thing unfavored, shared by all of us, makes coun¬ 
sel of a certain sort almost certainly futile. All of 
which I think is particularly true of ourselves as 
Americans; we know what we like, each one of us— 
and we know it hard. That there may happen to be 
flocks of sheep minds going en masse in this or that 
direction, or that the direction in which any given 
flock is traveling frequently changes, does not lessen 
the fact that our preferences are decided and dis¬ 
tinctly formed—and that we are well aware of them. 
So among the five classes into which the old garden 
designs range themselves, each of us will probably 
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