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Chapter 29

           Asitwascleartohimthathehadbeenhandicappedbyhisearlyenvironment,sonowheperceivedthatshewassimilarlyhandicapped. Shehadnothadachancetoexpand. Thebooksonherfather’sshelves,thepaintingsonthewalls,themusiconthepianoallwasjustsomuchmeretriciousdisplay. Torealliterature,realpainting,realmusic,theMorsesandtheirkind,weredead. Andbiggerthansuchthingswaslife,ofwhichtheyweredensely,hopelesslyignorant. InspiteoftheirUnitarianproclivitiesandtheirmasksofconservativebroadmindedness,theyweretwogenerationsbehindinterpretativescience:theirmentalprocessesweremediaeval,whiletheirthinkingontheultimatedataofexistenceandoftheuniversestruckhimasthesamemetaphysicalmethodthatwasasyoungastheyoungestrace,asoldasthecave-man,andolderthesamethatmovedthefirstPleistoceneape-mantofearthedark; thatmovedthefirsthastyHebrewsavagetoincarnateEvefromAdam’srib; thatmovedDescartestobuildanidealisticsystemoftheuniverseoutoftheprojectionsofhisownpunyego; andthatmovedthefamousBritishecclesiastictodenounceevolutioninsatiresoscathingastowinimmediateapplauseandleavehisnameanotoriousscrawlonthepageofhistory. 

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