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Today The Average Inhabitant Of The Western Hemisphere Knows A Little Of Everything. He Has The Newspaper On His Breakfast Table And Wireless Within Reach. For The Evening There Is The Film, Cards, Or A Meeting To Complete A Day Spent In The Office Or Factory Where Nothing That Is Essential Has Been Learnt. With Slight Variation This Picture Of A Low Cultural Average Holds Good Over The Entire Range From Factory-hand Of Clerk To Manager Or Director. Only The Personal Will To Culture, In Whatever Field And However Pursued Raises Modern Man Above This Level.

Most Thoughtful Americans Of Today Seem To Have Forgotten How Strongly Their Own And Immediate Predecessors, Emerson, Hawthorne And Whitman, Were Still Preoccupied With The Essence Behind Things.

The New Knowledge Has Not Yet Settled In Culture. It Has Not Yet Been Integrated In A New Cosmic Conception.

Play Is A Uniquely Adaptive Act, Not Subordinate To Some Other Adaptive Act, But With A Special Function Of Its Own In Human Experience.

In Europe Art Has To A Large Degree Taken The Place Of Religion. In America It Seems Rather To Be Science.