Excerpt from The Penalties of Taste: And Other Essays
The study of the genus homo is a pursuit of endless interest. The anatomy and physiology of man, and the diseases that infest his body, have been investigated with amazing success in recent decades. The moral and emotional - the intellectual side of human nature, has been a subject of wonder and study through all history. Why and how do people think and act so variously as they do? What is the basis of their varying equations in society? Essays and sermons, and stories without number, have been writ ten to answer these questions, yet the subject is not exhausted, and never can be.
The general tendencies of human kind, and much of the philosophy of life, were well told some centuries ago. But new problems arise, and new data are constantly being found.
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