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service as a volunteer in 1870, of his clerkship at a public department in Paris. Then, still trace- able in the stories, came a spell of life in the capi- tal, first in a small lettered society, later in a wider circle of acquaintance. From time to time there was a little travel, quite insufficient to free him from national limitations, a great deal of rowing and sailing, and a taste of fashion on the Riviera. This was all ; and amid the astonishing variety of incident found in his stories

April 13th 2029[1]. Nowadays human beings can expect to live one hundred years, the bat of an eyelid in the planet’s history, which for each of us ends and will always end in death. The end of the world is a repeated experience and is repeated every time a homo more or less sapiens closes his eyes forever. And yet the idea of a vita brevis is so difficult that we often prefer to consider ourselves the absolute beings of an absolute universe. Hence the Atlas reflex: we feel responsible for the world

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first. The children of Ham, Shem and Japhet may have listened to them in the Ark, on wet days. Hector's little boy may have heard them in Troy Town, for it is certain that Homer knew them, and that some of them were written down in Egypt about the time of Moses. People in different countries tell them differently, but they are always the same stories, really, whether among little Zulus, at the Cape, or little Eskimo, near the North Pole. The changes are only in matters of manners and customs; such

a humorist in the fundamental and large sense, as are Cervantes, Rabelais, and Mark Twain. No book is duller than a book of jokes, for what is refreshing in small doses becomes nauseating when perused in large assignments. Humor in literature is at its best not when served merely by itself but when presented along with other ingredients of literary force in order to give a wide representation of life. Therefore "professional literary humorists," as they may be called, have not been much considered

746071 I. RACE AND CULTURE It may seem somewhat made by surprising, in a series of booklets intended to combat racial prejudice, to speak of the contribuvarious races of men to world civilization. It be a waste of time to devote so much talent and effort to demonstrating that, in the present state of scientific knowledge, there is no justification for asserting that any one race is intellectually superior or inferior to another, if we were, in the end, indirectly

belong culture," 30 22 Chapter 3 The Power of Invention Invention is culture, 34 Control, 37 The necessity of invention, 43 The magic of advertising, 49 34 Chapter 4 The Invention of Self An important message for you about the makers of time, 56 Learning personality, 60 On "doing your own thing": The world of immanent humanity, 65 Learning humanity, 70 56 Chapter 5 The Invention of Society Cultural "change": Social convention as inventive flow, 76 The invention of language, 77 The

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like to thank many of their colleagues for their helpful suggestions on the development of this research. We are indebted to the late Dr. Sean Egan, and to Terry Kell and Kelly Rudan for their support, as well as to the 14 expert practitioners and the many associates who gave generously of their time and expertise; without this assistance the research would not have been possible. The authors also wish to acknowledge the financial support of the organizations involved in the sponsorship: Carleton University

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